- Nick Chase: I have an obsession... I-I think. I mean, I WAS a marine, right? And everything we did was obsessed.
- Kate Adler: Well, do you have one in particular, Nick?
- Nick Chase: Yeah, whenever I walk, I have to lead off with my left foot, and if, by mistake, I go with my right, I gotta skip twice and get back into rhythm.
- Kate Adler: Well, that's not that serious.
- Nick Chase: [confidentially] The guys look at me funny when I skip.
- Sheila: You know, I really identified with what you said in class today.
- Matthew Wiggins: Really? You like fish, too? Whadda you know?
- Sheila: ME? Oh, no, no. I'm crazy about plants. See, I wanna be a botanist.
- Matthew Wiggins: Ah, no kidding.
- Sheila: Well, I got my first plant at Woolworth's when I was six-years-old, except now it's a big tree planted in my backyard.
- Matthew Wiggins: I got my first fish at Woolworth's. Uh, it's in the backyard, too, but it's in a coffee can.
- Nick Chase: [at the science fair] What's this button for?
- Gary: You blow up the world with it.
- Nick Chase: And if I push THIS button?
- Gary: You blow up the world in stages.
- Nick Chase: You have anything for peace?
- Gary: Um, you obviously don't understand military strategy.
- Nick Chase: Excuse me? I was a marine for twenty years.
- Gary: Oh. A-a general or a colonel?
- Nick Chase: A sergeant.
- Gary: I'm a lieutenant in the ROTC. Drop and give me ten!
- Nick Chase: I'll be back with the rest of the judges in a minute.
- Gary: [nervously] Oh... I was just kiddin'.
- Nick Chase: [reading exhibit sign] Psychokinetics. What's that, like "Beam me up, Scotty?"
- Margaret: Please, don't trivialize this. This is a serious experiment in thought transference. Here, put on the cerebro-intensifier.
- Nick Chase: You mean the helmet.
- Margaret: Yeah. Now concentrate and focus your thoughts towards me.
- Nick Chase: This is...
- Margaret: ...RIDICULOUS!
- Nick Chase: That's...
- Margaret: ...FANTASTIC!
- Nick Chase: Well, I'm...
- Margaret: ...CONVINCED!
- Nick Chase: Okay, you can stop...
- Margaret: ...NOW!
- Matthew Wiggins: Look, Sheila, the bad stuff that happened to us was so minor in comparison to how I feel about you right now, and I think we owe it to ourselves to try.
- Matthew Wiggins: [taken aback] I can't believe I said that! So mature!
- Colonel Humner: Nick, if you'd a' come here just a couple o' weeks later, you'd have seen something really spectacular.
- Nick Chase: What, you're gonna try some Grecian formula.
- Colonel Humner: [laughs] Nick, Nick, look at this. It's taken me five years to get the paperwork together, but I'm finally going to get it.
- Nick Chase: It?
- Colonel Humner: My bathroom.
- Nick Chase: You must be awfully uncomfortable.