Linus Van Pelt Quotes in Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

Linus Van Pelt: Are we dead?

Lucy Van Pelt: Thanks to old Charlie Brown.

Sally Brown: I'm not dead.

Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt: Of course you're not dead!

Lucy Van Pelt: No thanks to old Charlie Brown!

Charlie Brown: All right, all right, let's go to the river!

Linus Van Pelt: Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?

Charlie Brown: What's that?

Linus Van Pelt: The world didn't come to an end.

[first lines]

Lucy Van Pelt: Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by. If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud's formations. What do you think you see, Linus?

Linus Van Pelt: Well, those clouds up there look to me look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean.

[points up]

Linus Van Pelt: That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor. And that group of clouds over there...

[points]

Linus Van Pelt: ...gives me the impression of the Stoning of Stephen. I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side.

Lucy Van Pelt: Uh huh. That's very good. What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?

Charlie Brown: Well... I was going to say I saw a duckie and a horsie, but I changed my mind.

Linus Van Pelt: You know, Charlie Brown, they say we learn more from losing than from winning.

Charlie Brown: Then that must make me the smartest person in the world.

Linus Van Pelt: Life is difficult, isn't it, Charlie Brown?

Charlie Brown: Yes, it is. But I've developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.

Lucy Van Pelt: [Walks into Linus's bedroom and raises the shade] Wake up Linus. It's time to go to school.

Linus Van Pelt: Again?

Lucy Van Pelt: What do you mean 'again'?

Linus Van Pelt: [Snuggles back into bed] I went yesterday.

Lucy Van Pelt: Mom's already made your lunch.

[Sets it on his bed and walks out]

Linus Van Pelt: [Sits up in bed, sighs] Guess I might as well go to school. I can't waste a good lunch.

Linus Van Pelt: Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown. You have nothing to lose. You'll either be the hero, or a goat.

[Snoopy, who is standing next to him, bleats like a goat, then walks away]

Linus Van Pelt: Here, run over to the drinking fountain and soak this handkerchief in cold water.

[Lucy skeptically examines the handkerchief]

Lucy Van Pelt: You're kidding. With a head like Charlie Brown's, you'll need a bedsheet.

Charlie Brown: I'm dying! And all I hear are insults!

Linus Van Pelt: [At the bus stop returning home] I guess nobody realized that we were returning.

Linus Van Pelt: My blanket... I can't be without it!

Linus Van Pelt: You look like you've been through shock treatment or something.

Charlie Brown: What's more shocking than having your faults projected on a screen?

Linus Van Pelt: This blanket is a necessity. It keeps me from cracking up. It may be regarded as a spiritual tourniquet. Without it, I'd be nothing, a ship without a rudder.