Quotes:June

These are the Quotes of the Day for June.

• 1 June:

Commander Jack Fisk: Is Madam President always so "right in your face"?

Gaius Baltar: Her last-minute resurrection seems to have invigorated her somewhat.
Fisk: Yeah, well, maybe too much. She doesn't really think her made-up plans and regulations are going to change anything, does she?

--Black Market

• 2 June:

Cottle is preparing to do an autopsy o­n Fisk.

Dr. Cottle: Admiral, Colonel, I'm just getting started, but from the looks of him, I'd say he was garroted.
Col. Tigh: Gods. This is the last thing we needed.
Cottle: Admiral, you might want to take a look at this. Looks like our friend, Fisk, hit the jackpot.
Cottle pulls a cubit out of Fisk's throat.
Tigh: Cubit?

--Black Market

• 3 June:

Throughout history the nexus between man and machine has spun some of the most dramatic, compelling and entertaining fiction.
--The Hybrid (The Passage)

• 4 June:

Number Six: What are you thinking?

Dr. Gaius Baltar: I'm thinking someone else might have to be implicated as a Cylon agent.
Six: He doesn't seem the type, and I don't remember seeing him at any of the Cylon parties.

--Miniseries

• 5 June:

"He takes his shoes off in my Raptor again. I might have to kill him."
--Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson (The Son Also Rises)

• 6 June:

Captain Thrace: [raising a toast] To BB, Jo-Jo, Riley, Beano, Dipper, Flat Top, Chuckles, Jolly, Crashdown, Sheppard, Dash, Flyboy, Stepchild, Puppet, Fireball... [pause]

Captain Lee Adama: To all of 'em.
Admiral Adama: So say we all.
All: [in unison] So say we all.
Kara Thrace: [quietly] So say we all.

--Scar

• 7 June:

Number Six: Procreation is one of God's commandments.

Gaius Baltar: Really? Well, I'm sure someday if you're a good Cylon, he'll reward you with a lovely little walking toaster of your very own.

--33

• 8 June:

Commander William Adama: From that moment on, every day has been a gift.

President Laura Roslin: From the Gods.
Adama: No. From you.

--Home, Part II

• 9 June:

Captain Lee Adama: [After Adama gives him a good luck charm before a dangerous mission] Dad, I'll bring it back.

Commander William Adama: You better, or I'll kick your ass. It's a good lighter.

--The Hand of God

• 10 June:

Gaius Baltar: I hear that you've been going off by yourself. "Doing things."

Number Three: Really? Now who would tell you anything about my business?
Baltar: So it's true.
Three: Caprica?
Baltar: Did you know you have some dried goo in your hair? That can happen when you resurrect. You know, now I'm beginning to understand just what you've been doing with yourself all these afternoons.
Three: Do you have any idea of what you are accusing me of?
Baltar: Yes. Intentionally killing yourself over and over so you can download over and over. But death's just a revolving door, isn't it?

--"The Passage"

• 11 June:

Lieutenant Starbuck: I had this, uh, wonderful speech all prepared...

Cassiopeia: About this being your last night here? About possibly not seeing another night as beautiful as this one, or another girl as beautiful as I am, ever again?
Starbuck: Yeah, well, that speech is a little better than the one I had. Would you mind if I borrowed it on some future occasion?

--Saga of a Star World

• 12 June:

[ About to go make out with his girlfriend in a fighter launch tube ]

Lieutenant Starbuck: Lord, I'll do anything you ask tomorrow... just don't call an alert tonight!

--Saga of a Star World

• 13 June:

Commander Adama: Mr. President, a wall of unidentified craft is closing in on the fleet.

Baltar: Possibly a Cylon welcoming committee?
Commander Adama: Sir, might I suggest we launch a "welcoming committee" of our own?

--Saga of a Star World

• 14 June:

Lieutenant Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.

Lieutenant Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planet shot to pieces, people starving, and I'm gonna get us in trouble?

--1978 Battlestar Galactica

• 15 June:

Gaius Baltar: What are you suggesting? That we throw it out of an airlock?

President Laura Roslin: I don't make suggestions Mr. Baltar. If I want to toss a baby out an airlock, I'd say so.

--Downloaded

• 16 June:

"Humanity has surrendered. The war is finally over. We must now fulfill our true destiny. We will love them and take care of them, show them the glory of peace. And like God, our infinite mercy will only be matched by our power and complete... control!"
--Caprica-Six (Season 3 sneak)

• 17 June:

[ After discussing Kara Thrace's fate ]

Commander William Adama: Yeah, I guess I'm just a crazy old man.
Colonel Saul Tigh: You sure as hell are. Just like me. No wonder they're about to put us both out to pasture.
Adama: A couple of old warhorses, eh?
Tigh: More like a couple of old mules, if you ask me.

--Battlestar Galactica (2005 Novel)

• 18 June:

Colonel Saul Tigh: What's this, Chief?

Chief Galen Tyrol: I'm making solvent, sir, to clean machine parts.
Tigh: Solvent my ass. I know a still when I smell it.

--Flight of the Phoenix

• 19 June:

Aaron Doral: They would have destroyed themselves anyway. They deserve what they got.

Number Six: We're the children of humanity. That makes them our parents in a sense.
Doral: True - but parents have to die. It's the only way children come into their own.

--Bastille Day

• 20 June:

Gaius Baltar : I just don't respond to the title "Doc." A dock is a platform for loading and unloading material. My title is "Doctor" or "Mr. Vice President," if you don't mind.

Chief Galen Tyrol: You are loading, are you not?

--Fragged

• 21 June:

Lt. Felix Gaeta: Sir, I'm running every diagnostic we've got. Checking each line of code could take days.

Colonel Saul Tigh: I am not interested in excuses. Fix it!
Gaeta: It's not an excuse, sir! It's a frakking fact!

--Flight of the Phoenix

• 22 June:

Colonel Saul Tigh: Don't you play "holier than thou" with me. I haven't done anything that most people on this ship haven't done. Including you.

Captain Lee Adama: Doesn't make us right, Colonel, just a whole lot of people wrong.

--Black Market

• 23 June:

[ After meeting Dr. Gaius Baltar for the first time ]

"What a strange little man."

--D'anna Biers (Final Cut)

• 24 June:

Lieutennant Kara Thrace: Permission to speak off the record?

Colonel Saul Tigh: Granted.
Thrace: You're a bastard.

--Miniseries

• 25 June:

[ Discussing the construction of the Blackbird ]

Captain Lee Adama: Nobody's expecting a miracle.
Chief Galen Tyrol: Maybe that's the problem.

--Flight of the Phoenix

• 26 June:

Lieutenant Kara Thrace: Ummm. I have my flaws too.

Colonel Saul Tigh: The difference is, my flaws are personal, yours are professional.

--Bastille Day

• 27 June:

Commander William Adama: Politics. As exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous.

President Laura Roslin: Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.
Adama: You're still standing.
Roslin: So are you.

--Colonial Day

• 28 June:

Doctor Cottle to Caprica-Valerii about her premature labor:

Cottle: I find it absolutely amazing you people went through all the trouble to appear human, and didn't upgrade the plumbing.

--Downloaded

• 29 June:

After the activation of the hologram projection system in the Tomb of Athena

Commander William Adama: I thought we were in the Tomb of Athena.
Lieutenant Kara Thrace: I think that was just the lobby.

--Home, Part II

• 30 June:

Colonel Saul Tigh: You know, if people knew how much you've relied on that thing's so called intelligence, they'd be scared out of their wits.

Admiral William Adama: What about you, Saul? Are you afraid of her?
Tigh: You know, the truth is I don't like the way it's gotten under your skin.

--Sacrifice

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