Donald Quinelle Quotes in The Survivors (1983)

Donald Quinelle: What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

Sonny Paluso: You think Wes is God, don't you.

Donald Quinelle: No, not God, Just an ordinary man. Maybe a little ahead of his time, but just an ordinary man.

Sonny Paluso: Wes is an asshole.

Donald Quinelle: Blasphemy! Oh, you'll smoke a turd in hell for that!

Donald Quinelle: OK, Mr. Honky Mo-Fo... take your best shot!

Candice Paluso: Listen, this is gonna sound like a really stupid question, but, uh, aren't you guys gonna get really bored out here if society doesn't collapse?

Donald Quinelle: I wouldn't worry about that. Wes says society is heading for the big "flush". And we're going to be the ones who are clinging to the rim while everything else goes down.

Candice Paluso: Eeew!

Sonny Paluso: What're you going to do if things get better?

Donald Quinelle: Is the air getting better?

Candice Paluso: That's true.

Donald Quinelle: The economy? The Middle East? Arts, literature, television, US Presidents improving?

Sonny Paluso: Anyone can nitpick.

Donald Quinelle: Sonny, name one thing that's gotten better in the last ten years.

Sonny Paluso: [Sonny is stumped]

Donald Quinelle: See?

Candice Paluso: Video games.

Sonny Paluso: Video games! There you are.

Donald Quinelle: Alright, I acknowledge that.

Donald Quinelle: I'm sorry I'm gonna have to blow a large hole in your skivvy heart.

[first lines]

Betty: Mr. Quinelle!

Donald Quinelle: Morning, Betty!

Betty: Mr. Stoddard would like you to step into the board room.

Donald Quinelle: He wants to see me?

Betty: You can go right in.

[last lines]

Donald Quinelle: Tell me things are gonna work out, Sonny.

Sonny Paluso: Everything's gonna work out.

Donald Quinelle: Yeah, yeah. Boy, it's been a strange winter, hasn't it?

Sonny Paluso: Not really.

Donald Quinelle: No.

Donald Quinelle: This will be like skiing, except for the booby traps.

Doreen: I don't believe in surviving. I believe in living.

Donald Quinelle: You drive fast, oyster brain. Because the sooner you get here, the sooner there'll be one less wart on the ass of society.

Donald Quinelle: Wes says to shoot the radios because without music they lose half their will to fight.