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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Belloq: How odd that it should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level.
Indiana Jones: Try the local sewer.

Toht: You Americans, you're all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occassions.

[Marion is being kidnapped]
Marion: You can't do this to me, I'm am AMERICAN!

Brody: Marion's the least of your worries right now, believe me, Indy.
Indy: What do you mean?
Brody: Well, I mean that for nearly three thousand years man has been searching for the lost ark. It's not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It's like nothing you've ever gone after before.
Indy: [laughing] Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We've known each other for a long time. I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus. I'm going after a find of incredible historical significance, you're talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am. [throws his gun into his suitcase]

Satipo: Let us hurry. There is nothing to fear here.
Indiana Jones: That's what scares me.

Indiana Jones: There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!
Jock: Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie.
Indiana Jones: I hate snakes, Jock! I hate 'em!
Jock: C'mon, show a little backbone, will ya?

Marion Ravenwood: You're not the same man I knew ten years ago.
Indiana Jones: It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

Sallah: Indy, there is something that troubles me.
Indiana Jones: What is it?
Sallah: The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.

Indiana Jones: You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do!

[Upon opening the Well of the Souls and peering down into it.]
Sallah: Indy, why does the floor move?
Indiana Jones: Give me your torch. [Sallah does, and Indy drops it in.] Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah: Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.

Sallah: Indy, you have no time. If you still want the ark, it is being loaded onto a truck for Cairo.
Indiana Jones: Truck? What truck?

Indy: Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck.
Sallah: How?
Indy: I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

Belloq: Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.

Belloq: So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine.

Belloq: What a fitting end to your life's pursuits. You're about to become a permanent addition to this archaeological find. Who knows? In a thousand years, even you may be worth something.
 


 
 
 
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth.

Henry Jones: You call THIS archaeology?!

[Encountering a painting of the Ark of the Covenant.]
Elsa: What's this?
Indy: Ark of the Covenant.
Elsa: Are you sure?
Indy: Pretty sure.

Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you!
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum!
Panama Hat: So do you!

Fedora: You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it.

Elsa: [kisses Indy] That's how we say goodbye in Austria.
Vogel: And this is how we say goodbye in Germany.
[Punches Indy in the face. Indy's head smacks back into Henry's head.]
Indy: I liked the Austrian way better.
Henry: So did I!

Henry: They're trying to kill us!
Indiana Jones: I know, Dad!
Henry: This is a new experience for me.
Indiana Jones: It happens to me all the time.

[Escaping in a biplane]
Henry Jones: I didn't know you could fly.
Indy: Fly, yes. Land, no.

[Nazi colonel Vogel is torturing Henry to get answers]
Colonel Vogel: Tell me about this miserable little diary of yours. The book is useless and yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why?
[He slaps Henry in the face with his glove]
Colonel Vogel: Why?
[He slaps him again]
Colonel Vogel: What are you hiding?
[He slaps him again]
Colonel Vogel: What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?
[He tries to slap him again until Henry grabs ahold of his hand]
Professor Henry Jones: It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.

Indiana Jones: I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up.

[Indiana Jones is asking Henry how he could've slept with Elsa]
Henry: I'm as human as the next man.
Indiana Jones: Dad, I was the next man!

Henry: Sorry about the head but I thought that you were one of them.
Indiana Jones: Dad, they come in through the doors!
Henry: Ha, good point.

[Henry, Indiana Jones, and Sallah are discussing why Henry calls Indy 'Junior']
Indiana Jones: I like 'Indiana'.
Henry: We named the *dog* 'Indiana'.

Indiana Jones: Nazis. I hate these guys.
 


 
 
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Background:  "Knight of the Holy Grail," by Frederick J. Waugh