General Thomas Percell Quotes in The Core (2003)

Serge Leveque: Excuse me Dr. Brazzelton, when do you think the ship will be operational?

Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: When I get my fabrication methods perfected, twelve... ten years. Ten years.

General Thomas Percell: What would it take to get it done in three months?

Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Fifty billion dollars, I...

[laughing]

General Thomas Percell: [deadpan] Will you take a cheque?

Dr. Josh Keyes: You should use a credit card. You get miles.

General Thomas Percell: Hmm.

Taz 'Rat' Finch: You want me to hack the planet? He wants me to hack the planet... Ok, *if* I decide to do this, I'll need an unlimited supply of Xena tapes and Hotpockets.

General Thomas Percell: Hotpockets?

Taz 'Rat' Finch: They help me concentrate.

Dr. Josh Keyes: Sounds fair.

Dr. Josh Keyes: I think we are in the wrong place here...

Serge Leveque: Yeah, we're in the wrong place...

General Thomas Percell: No. If you were in the wrong place, you'd have already been shot.

Serge Leveque: That's a hell of a greeting.

Talma Stickley: [Percell gives the final order to fire DESTINI] Damn you.

General Thomas Percell: Damn me? Too late.

General Thomas Percell: How do we fix it?

Dr. Josh Keyes: We can't.

General Thomas Percell: Not in my vocabulary.

Dr. Josh Keyes: Then you might want to get one of those word-a-day calendars, General, because it's impossible. The core is the size of Mars. You're talking about jump-starting a planet. This is a superheated hyper-fluid of molten iron and nickel at 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And the deepest we've ever been is... 7 miles, with a two-inch drill bit.

General Thomas Percell: If we can go into space, we certainly...

Dr. Josh Keyes: Space is easy. It's empty. We're talking about millions of pounds of pressure per square inch. Even if we somehow came up with a brilliant plan to fix the core, we just can't get there.