Thomson Quotes in The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Thomson: [looks at the newspaper] Great Scotland Yard! That's extraordinary!

Tintin: What is?

Thomson: Worthington's having a half-price sale on bowler hats!

Inspector Thompson: [snatches the newspaper] Really, Thomson! This is hardly the time...

[looks at the newspaper]

Inspector Thompson: Great Scotland Yard!

Thomson, Tintin: What is it?

Inspector Thompson: Canes are half-price too!

Silk: I'm not a bad person. I'm a kleptomaniac.

Thomson: A what?

Inspector Thompson: It's fear of open spaces.

Thomson: Poor man. No wonder he keeps his wallets in the living room.

[from trailer]

Tintin: Are you going to take charge of this evidence?

Inspector Thompson: Never fear, Tintin! The evidence is safe with us!

[falls down stairs]

Thomson: Thompson? Where are you?

Inspector Thompson: Well, I'm already downstairs! You'd better keep up!

[Thomson and Thompson plan a trap for the wallet thief]

Inspector Thompson: It's childishly simple!

Thomson: To be precise: it's simply childish!

Inspector Thompson: You are under arrest!

Thomson: To be precise: you are under arrest!

[Tintin and his friends have discovered that the "Milanese Nightengale" is none other than Opera singer, Bianca Castafiore by seeing a poster of her in the entrance of the sheik's palace]

Thomson: [amazed] My!

Inspector Thompson: [equally amazed] My!

Captain Haddock: [stoutly, yet awestruck] What a *dish.*

Thomson: Conscious machines are the last thing we need. Have you any idea how dangerous that would be?

Thomson: Machine, how can we win a war against China?

The Machine: Use an android to infiltrate C.P. and assassinate the paramount leader, the party elders, and the heads of the politburo and discipline commission.

Thomson: Well, why didn't I think of that?

The Machine: When they are all dead, civil unrest will tear the country apart.

Vincent: Okay, I'm now going to remove the restraints for tests...

[the Machine grabs his hand]

The Machine: You smell sweet...

Vincent: [pause] Thank you.

The Machine: For what?

Vincent: You're being gentle.

The Machine: If I wasn't gentle you would break. I don't want to hurt you, Vincent.

Vincent: Good

[pause]

Vincent: Good, you shouldn't hurt people.

Thomson: Is that binding? Because we 'will' want her to hurt quite a few people eventually.

Thomson: [calling for a vote] Where's Rhode Island?

McNair: Rhode Island's out visiting the necessary.

Hancock: Well, after what Rhode Island has consumed, I can't say I'm surprised. We'll come back to him, Mr. Thompson.

Thomson: Rhode Island passes.

[Roar of laughter from the Congress]

Thomson: If any be opposed to the resolution on independence as proposed by the Colony of Virginia signify by saying...

John Adams: Mr. President?

Thomson: Oh, for heaven's sake, let me get through it once.

Thomas Jefferson: They're reading the Declaration.

John Adams: Good God. How far have they gotten?

Thomas Jefferson: "... to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power."

[John opens the door to the Chamber]

Thomson: "... independent of and superior to-"

[John closes the door]

John Adams: Tell me, Mr. Thomson, out of curiosity. Do you stand with Mr. Dickinson, or do you stand with me?

Thomson: I stand with the General. Well, lately, I've had the oddest feeling that he's been writing to me.

Thomson: [reading from Washington's letter] I have been in expectation of receiving a reply on the subject of my last fifteen dispatches. Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Does anybody care?

Thomson: The count, being twelve to none, with one abstention, the resolution on independence

[pause, then in surprise]

Thomson: *is* adopted.

Thomson: [reading Washington's letter] The situation is most desperate at the New Jersey training ground in New Brunswick, where every able bodied whore in the co... "WHORE?"... in the colonies has assembled. There are constant reports of drunkenness, desertion, foul language, naked bathing in the Raritan river, and an epidemic of the "French disease." I have placed this town off limits to all military personnel with the exception of officers. I beseech the congress to dispatch the War Committee to this place, in the hope of restoring some of the order and discipline we need to survive. Your obedient...

[drumroll]

Thomson: G. Washington.

Col. Thomas McKean: That man would depress a hyena.

Hancock: Well, Mr. Adams, you're chairman of the war committee. Do you feel up to whoring, drinking, deserting, and New Brunswick?

Rev. John Witherspoon: There must be some mistake, I have an aunt who lives in New Brunswick.

John Dickinson: You must tell her to keep up the good work.

[reading George Washington's last letter]

Thomson: I can now state, with some certainty, that the eve of battle is upon us. Toward this end, I have ordered the evacuation of Manhattan, and have ordered my men to take up stronger positions along the Brooklyn heights. At this time, my troops consist entirely of Rhode Island militia, and smallwoods Marylanders, a total of five thousand troops to stand against... twenty-five thousand of the enemy. One personal note to Mr. Lewis Morris, of New York - I must regretfully report that his estates have been totally destroyed, but that I have taken the liberty of transporting Mrs. Morris and eight of the children to Connecticut in safety. The four older boys are now enlisted in the continental army. As I write these words, the enemy is plainly in sight beyond the river, and I begin to notice that many of us are lads under fifteen and old men, none of whom can truly be called soldiers. How it will end, only providence can direct. But dear God, what brave men... I shall lose... before this business... ends. Your humble, and obedient...

[drum roll]

Thomson: G. Washington.