The Thing from Another World Quotes with Sound Clips

The Thing from Another World Quotes with Sound Clips

Revisit the sci-fi classic "The Thing from Another World" with our collection of sound clips featuring iconic quotes from the 1951 movie.

Actors: Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Scotty)

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1 Knowledge is more important than life, captain. We've only one excuse for existing... to think, to find out, to learn.

— Dr. Arthur Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite)

2 What if that aircraft came here not just to visit the earth, but to conquer it, to start growing some kind of horrible army, to turn the human race into food for it?

3 Tell me something, did you really drink all those drinks? -Mm-mmm. -You didn't throw any away? Not a one? -No. -Holy cats, I thought I was good.

— Nikki Nicholson (Margaret Sheridan), Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey)

4 Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are: Watch the skies everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.

— Scotty (Douglas Spencer)

5 The $64 question... what do you do with a vegetable? -Boil it. -What'd you say? -Boil it, stew it, bake it, fry it.

— Nikki Nicholson (Margaret Sheridan), Scotty (Douglas Spencer)

6 What do you hear from the general? -Oh, your General. He's nursing his secrets like a June bride.

— Scotty (Douglas Spencer)

7 I don't tolerate intrusions into my laboratory. Please don't touch.

8 Tell 'em if I don't get permission to send a story, I'm gonna shoot myself. -You better comb your hair first. -What hair?

— Scotty (Douglas Spencer), Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey)

9 They'll probably make you a general for destroying evidence that they're wrong.

— Scotty (Douglas Spencer)

10 What can we learn from that thing, except a quicker way to die?

— Scotty (Douglas Spencer)

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