Tom Bowen Quotes in Non-Stop (2014)

Tom Bowen: [about national security] You, Bill. You are that lie.

Bill Marks: You should just have handed out pamphlets. It would have been a lot easier.

[Bowen bashes Marks across the face, knocking him down]

Tom Bowen: You can't change the world with words, Bill, unless you write them on the evening news with blood.

Chester: Marriages are very healthy, sir. You see, married men live much longer than bachelors.

Tom Bowen: If that's true, they're only trying to outlive their wives so they can be bachelors again.

Ellen Bowen: Didn't your mother never teach you no manners?

Tom Bowen: I never had no mother. We was too poor.

James Ashmond: Do I look like a gentleman?

Tom Bowen: You look like a banker.

James Ashmond: But do I look like a gentleman?

Tom Bowen: You should have seen your face when you saw me.

Anne Ashmond: How did I look?

Tom Bowen: As if I were a dentist.

Ellen Bowen: [referring to the royal couple] I wonder what the bride is doing today.

Tom Bowen: Why don't you call her up and ask her?

Ellen Bowen: [chuckles] I wonder what I would be doing a month before my wedding.

Tom Bowen: Probably trying to find a way out of it.

Ellen Bowen: Do you really think so?

Tom Bowen: You know you would.

Tom Bowen: I wonder what the groom is doing today.

Ellen Bowen: Why don't you call him up and ask him?

Tom Bowen: Very funny.

Chester: Have you ever considered getting married, sir?

Tom Bowen: I was engaged once.

Chester: What happened?

Tom Bowen: The girl changed her mind at the last minute.

Tom Bowen: Sorry, I thought you were *him*.

Anne Ashmond: How odd.

Tom Bowen: He didn't have to chase very hard after her. She stood still and waited.