Nancy Drew Quotes in Nancy Drew (2007)

Nancy Drew: Ned can I ask you a question?

Ned Nickerson: Mhm.

Nancy Drew: Can you tell when a girl looks at you and is thinking how much she likes you and is wondering if you like her and thinking how important it is for you to say how you feel before she says anything more about how she feels about you or anyone else they might be jealous of because she's already said how she feels how she's said in her own way?

Ned Nickerson: Uh, can you repeat the question?

[Carson Drew is talking on the cell phone while driving]

Nancy Drew: Dad, do you know that people who talk on the phone while driving miss things?

Carson Drew: Like what?

Nancy Drew: That woman in the road!

Inga: I noticed you were wearing Penny Loafers. Did your podiatrist suggest them are or you being ironic?

Nancy Drew: I like old fashioned things.

Inga: Oh... we've noticed.

Ned Nickerson: There it is. Just like clockwork.

Nancy Drew: What?

Ned Nickerson: Postpartum depression. You're sad the case is over.

Nancy Drew: That's ridiculous. I'm glad it all worked out.

Ned Nickerson: You're only happy when there is trouble. This I know for sure.

[last lines]

Carson Drew: Phone call. Long distance from Scotland. Something about the Loch Ness Monster and some missing diamonds.

Nancy Drew: Another case!

Nancy Drew: I wonder who tried to kill us?

Corky: Yeah, I'm wondering that too. In fact, I'm kind of freaking out about it!

[first lines]

Thug: Who are you?

Nancy Drew: Hello. I'm Nancy Drew. It's nice to meet you. May I ask who you are?

Nancy Drew: If you shoot me, that'll leave all kinds of evidence. Really messy.

[thug prepares to strangle her]

Nancy Drew: Strangulation leaves a traceable handprint.

Nancy Drew: [found a bomb in her car] Excuse me, I have to defuse this bomb.

Inga: Oh totally. Love is a battlefield

Nancy Drew: Ted, why did you have to have a sister?

Ted Nickerson: Ask Ma!

City Editor Bostwick: Why anyone is simple minded enough to want to work on a newspaper I've never been able to find out.

Nancy Drew: Why Mr. Bostwick, journalism is a very noble and glorious career. With all the adventure and romance and everything I'd think you would just love it.

Nancy Drew: A reporter has the right to do things an ordinary person shouldn't.

Nancy Drew: Ted, I'm positive that the woman who stole the tin can from me yesterday is Soxie's girlfriend. Now all you have to do is get him to tell you her name and where she lives.

Ted Nickerson: Maybe you'd like to know if she's got any bridgework! How will that help?

Nancy Drew: You remember Captain Tweety always said, "Cherchez la femme!" - find the woman! - the only smart thing he ever did say!

Ted Nickerson: Yeah, and he stole that!

Nancy Drew: It's true! You can always get information from women. They just love to talk!

Nancy Drew: [to Ted as the murderer is headed for their room] Well! Do something!

Nancy Drew: I guess it's just my women's intuition, but she just doesn't look like the type to poison anybody.

Ted Nickerson: [trying to impress the maid with a joke] A duck is a chicken with snowshoes.

Nancy Drew: And a halfwit is a person who spends half their time trying to be witty.

Nancy Drew: Dad! Ted's in jail again! Come on!

Nancy Drew: Well, if you must insult me, you might at least do it in English!

Effie Schneider, Drew's Maid: I didn't know you wanted to be a lawyer.

Nancy Drew: Oh yes, I think every intelligent woman should have a career.

Nancy Drew: I guess it's just my woman's intuition. Every woman has one, you know.

Ted Nickerson: Why are there potatoes on the floor?

Nancy Drew: I put them there, that's how I cook potatoes, on the floor.

Nancy Drew: Ted, there are times when parents must be disobeyed...