Fireman Quotes in Time Bandits (1981)
Fireman Quotes:
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Fireman: This is what started it. Left the Sunday joint cooking all night, didn't we?
Kevin's Mother: Sunday joint? It's Thursday.
-- Fireman -
The Conductor: Caribou Crossing?
Engineer: I make this herd to be at least a 100,000, maybe even a million. It's going to be hours before they clear this track!
Fireman: A tough nut to crack!
The Conductor: Boy, we are in some serious jelly!
Engineer: And jam!
Fireman: Tight spot!
Engineer: Up a creek!
Fireman: Up a tree!
Engineer: In the grass!
Fireman: I'll tell you what's grass...
-- Fireman -
Fireman: It's a 23!
[False alarm]
Fireman: You'll get your summons in the mail. Let your wife cook!
-- Fireman -
Amber Atkins: [Running onto the scene of her and her mom's blown up trailer home] Mom? MOM?
Fireman: Whoa, whoa, whoa... you family?
Loretta: No, she's just yelling, "Mom, mom," because she has Tourettes! She's Annette's kid dipshit.
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[a bunch of cops and fireman run into Mooby's and see the "interspecies erotica"]
Fireman: What the fuck?
[the donkey brays as the Police Officer sees Randal's "Porch Monkey 4 Life" shirt]
Officer: [shouting] PORCH MONKEY?
Randal Graves: Oh, no no, it's cool, I'm taking it back.
-- Fireman -
Fireman: Ma'am, were you aware that your car was on fire?
[Bernadine nods her head while smoking a cigarette]
Fireman: Ma'am, did you start this fire?
[she puffs smoke and plainly looks at him]
Fireman: You know, it's against the law to burn anything except trash in your yard.
Bernadine Harris: [flicks off ashes from her cigarette] It is trash.
Fireman: Look, this is a nice area. Luckily, a neighbor cared enough. Listen, the next time you want to burn something...
Bernadine Harris: It won't happen again.
[she shuts the door in his face]
-- Fireman -
[the fire crew's net had been accidentally broken by Alonzo Hawk during their attempt to rescue him]
Fireman: I told you we needed a new one.
Fire Chief: You told me? What do you think I've been telling the town council? How am I supposed to buy a new net without an appropriation?
Fireman: Well, don't get hot. I only mentioned it.
Fire Chief: Well, you just keep the kinks out of the fire hose. That's all I want from you. I'm the Chief!
-- Fireman -
Fireman: We've got better things to do with taxpayers money.
Bob: I'm sorry, when I get to the top I just lost me nerve.
Terry Collier: Keeps your hand in doesn't it, better than polishing your bell up all afternoon.
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Fireman: [the Book Woman is given 10 seconds to get out of the house] 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9...
Book Lady: Nine elevenths are ninety-nine, nine twelfths are a hundred and eight, nine thirteens are a hundred and seventeen, nine fourteenths are a hundred and twenty-six.
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The Captain: What's going on?
Fireman: This house has been condemned, it's to be burnt with the books immediately.
The Captain: Burning the books is one thing, burning the house is another altogether.
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[fire department arrives when Niles' washing machine overflows]
Fireman: There's no fire?
Adam J. Niles: Well if I hollered "Soap!" who'd come?
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Fireman: Those who find the blooming ferns, enjoy perfect sexual union, unendurable ecstasy, indefinitely prolonged.
-- Fireman
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