Stash Quotes in Skidoo (1968)

Stash: Violence is the sign language of the inarticulate.

Geronimo: Speak softly.

Stash: Xerox me, man. I don't wanna be misquoted.

Geronimo: Peace! You were saying?

Stash: Dig the, uh, Spirit of St. Louis, man. Yeah, like, uh, Greeley says, what's seven or eight Dukes of Windsor when it's uh Mona Lisa time, huh? Yeah, take a bow and arrow, and we're not getting any younger, right? So come in X-17. Over.

Geronimo: Son of Norway, you're loud and clear. Cool as everything.

Stash: Over and out.

God: What'd he say?

Stash: Oh, he says he'll have to get back to me.

Geronimo: Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh.

Hippie Guy 1: Kidnapped.

Geronimo: Who?

Hippie Guy 2: Mona Lisa?

Geronimo: Yours.

Flo Banks: Darlene. They've got Darlene!

Hippie Guy 1: Calm.

Geronimo: Bow and arrow. They're armed. But where?

Hippie Guy 1: Horace Greeley said, "Go west, young man."

Geronimo: He did, and how far west? Windsor...

Hippie Gal: Knots!

Geronimo: Water, children, water! Seven to eight knots west of... What? That's the hole. X-17. Think. X-17.

Hippie Guy 1: X could mean "used to be".

Flo Banks: Seventeen! The old pier. Pier 17!

Stash: Man, how I wish I could be nothin'.

Darlene Banks: What?

Stash: Nothin'.

Darlene Banks: Noth-ing.

Stash: If you can't dig nothin' you can't dig anything. You dig?

Darlene Banks: You mean if I could be nothing, I would be everything?

Stash: You dig! I mean like that's why the stablishment cats are not makin' it. They're diggin' the 9 to 5 bag. Rush to the city. What's happening' in the news instead of what's happenin' in themselves. You dig?

Darlene Banks: Now I see what you mean. Everything we need is right here inside ourselves.

Stash: Hey, you dig! I mean like the vibrations are there, dewdrop. You know I really think we could make it, you and I. I really feel we could make it.

Stash: Geronimo, this is Darlene.

Darlene Banks: Hello.

Geronimo: This is Iris, and various assorted beautiful people.

Tony Banks: [to Stash, dressed in hippie garb] Who's your tailor, Sitting Bull?

Stash: Once more, man?

Tony Banks: You heard me. Why do you go around dressed like that for?

Stash: Hey, we can't all be undertakers, man.

Stash: I remember you once asked me what TILT means? If you push the pinball too hard, you lose the ball. The game is over. That's what I thought back then. Now I know, I was wrong. The game is over only when you give up. This time I won't do it. I won't lose you for a second time.

Stash: When you feel you're losing the ball, you push the pin-ball to save the game. You want to be a player. You want to outsmart the machine. But if you push it too much, the game cuts you off. That's TILT... Game Over.

Angel: You're fucked, in other words.

Stash: Right there at the border, I should have got off the train and go back to you.

Stash: There's a big shipment coming in today - supplies and stuff for the new church - coming through El Madero Pass. We can grab it and sell it.

Nick Kovacs: We grab it... and burn it!

Stash: And sell the ashes?

Nick Kovacs: Where can we sell anything? We grab it and burn it! If shipment don't get to where she go, then they don't pay for it. And then ten thousand dollars is still ten thousand dollars waiting for us in one big bunch.