Best sci-fi movie quotes of 1988

Nada: Brother, life's a bitch...and she's back in heat.

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Ruby: Most people our age are a pain in the ass.
Bernie: Most people our age are dead.

Officer Curtis Mooney: Police station, Mooney here...What? Oh, they took your wife away in a balloon? Well you don't need the police pal, you need a psychiatrist!

Young Michael: What is he wearing?
Agent: A Prince T-shirt and red sneakers.
Young Michael: Prince T-shirt?

Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco: You humans are very curious to us. You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we've never known before. You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. Which is why it is all the more painful and confusing to us that so few of you seem capable of living up to the ideals you set for yourselves.

Mac: Are we limp and hard to manage?

Fred: Okay, Ace? I get your arm working, you can do the rest yourself, right?
Johnny 5: Kay-O, Derf.
Fred: Fred.
Johnny 5: That's what I said. Derf.

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Brad: Look.
Megan Morgan: Where are they all going?
Brad: I don't know. Looks like some kind of critter convention.

Roadrash: Must have been a rowdy crowd tonight.

Kalgan: It was cruel fate to be born in space, but I have vowed we will not die here. It is my destiny to set my feet upon a real world to accumulate wealth and power beyond our wildest dreams. I have offered the people of the Southern Sun a rich, new life, and now they have no alternative but to accept my generosity and alter course for Corona Borealis.

Janet Cruise: It's ruined. It's totally ruined.
Eric Cruise: It wasn't me, mom! It was a little creature! I saw it.
Janet Cruise: The house is totally destroyed.
Eric Cruise: What do you want me to say?
Janet Cruise: I don't want you to say anything.

Tara: They are gardeners and carpenters, they are not tomato men.

Stevie: And when she turned it on it shot that metal thing right up into her face, shot it up just like a gun. Isn't that bad? It shot it up right through her eyeball.

Brian Flagg: In the meantime, we're your prisoners?
Dr. Meddows: Not at all, you're my patients.

Wanda Saknussemm: Bitchin' left hook, Crassus.

Mike: I want to stop him.
Reggie: The Tall Man? That story about me blowing up my own house because it was infested with midgets. Mike, that wasn't real. Your doctor said that it was your own paranoid delusions caused by your brother's death.

Kay: Amoebas don't make motorcycles and atomic bombs.

Lucy Peters: Wait a minute! You just tell me what the hell's going on.
Harry Washello: Mrs. Peters, in a half-an-hour there's going to be a full-on nuclear attack. The missiles are on their way now. L.A.'s going to be a desert again very soon.

Harvey Skitters: yes! magnificent! oh, hello!
Grandpa: hello! Billy, this is Mr Harvey Skitters. I used to take your dad out here when he was your age.
Billy Johnson: why'd he stop?
Grandpa: maybe he's too old for circus, or maybe for time with his father.