Ricketts Quotes in The Quest (1986)

Ricketts: Son, every time that brain of yours starts punching out data, public property is in danger, women cry and dogs bark.

Ricketts: And where are they?

Cody: Where are who?

Ricketts: The people from the Guinness Book of Records. There must be some kind of prize for raging idiocy.

Ricketts: You wanna keep the kid. The kid wants to keep you. But if he gets killed, well those welfare people aren't going to give you permanent custody are they.

Ricketts: The point is it's against the law, Gaz.

Gaza: What? To do what you and I were doing when we were kids.

Ricketts: Ah, yeah, but you and I didn't make railway bikes and gyrocopters.

Gaza: Only because we weren't smart enough.