"Ten to one it's the power source for this place. All I need to do now is to find the light switch. Or the plug. Or the fuse box. Or whatever makes this thing work. (shouting) An instruction manual might help! (mutters) Maybe a map. And I could use a sandwich. (raises voice) And a hot jukebox and a cold beer! Or just a starship headed for home! (sigh) Get a grip, Boston."
"(picks up cylindrical artifact) What are these things: wands, batons, bludgeons? With my luck it's a hand grenade."
"(enters the tram area) So much for the cafeteria idea."
"(after riding the tram) Now I know what my pet hamster felt like."
"I'm beginning to take this personally. Nobody wants to stay with me. Maybe it's my deodorant. I think it failed somewhere back there on Attila."
"(after diving from a cliff into the sea) That should be an Olympic event. I know I'd get the bronze."
"(after clearing the tidal gap) First time I ever did the wave all by myself."
"The way things have been going, I can pretty much bet that whatever that little beast just stole, I'm gonna want it really badly in a minute or two."
"What if I hadn't brought this shovel along? No, that's not worth thinking about."
"I'm warning you! You better not be laughing at me, because I'll have roast critter to eat before I starve to death in here!"
"(looking at huge alien) He's very tall. Or I'm very short. I wish I didn't keep thinking of the term 'bite-sized.' Please be friendly. I hope you're friendly. I'm certainly friendly. Let's all be friends."
"I almost beat Maggie's high score."
"It's not my fault. The buttons were sticky."
"The Eagle has landed."
"A professor once told me, 'Astronomers are geologists with clean hands and a squint'."
"Another random hole bulldozed by our fearless leader."
"Boston -- it didn't just bring me to life. It brought me -- to LIFE."
"I feel like I never knew what good health was until today."
"It's almost worth falling through holes on alien planets, if you feel this good afterwards."
"(distracting an alien monster) Come on, you ponderous exoskeleton... you cocoon-eating lobster-faced cave-dwelling arthropoidal alimentary sphincter muscle!"
"After so many years of bad TV shows and crackpot phony pictures, HERE is the real proof. There IS alien life."
"Just when this place starts looking benign, it finds new ways to be dangerous."
"The Eye sees into all space and time. And where the Eye sees, the mind can fly."
"There are two ways to protect your planet. One is if you return and warn them to stay away. The other is if you never return at all. Which warning do you think will be more effective?"
"What raises the dead can debase the living."