Dana Scully

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Dana Scully Quotes

	Season 9 / Episode 13: - Improbable Mr. Burt: [held at gunpoint by Scully for the second time] So, what you're saying is I had nothing to do with it? Dana Scully: [Mr Burt puts down his hands] Hey, keep you hands up! Mr. Burt: Why? Dana Scully: I don't know.
	Season 9 / Episode 13: - Improbable Mr. Burt: What's this about numbers? Dana Scully: Will you just...! Mr. Burt: I'm very good with numbers. Monica Reyes: The killer is driven by an impuls we believe is numerological. Mr. Burt: Of course, he's a serial killer.
	Season 9 / Episode 13: - Improbable Dana Scully: What are YOU looking at? Mr. Burt: Same thing you are.
	Season 8 / Episode 5: - Invocation Dana Scully: [on explaining how a young boy could reappear after 10 years without aging even a day] There are X-files cases, that describe similar paranormal findings. Alien abductees, who came back with anomalous medical stats. John Doggett: You know, these words, "anomalous", "supernatural", "paranormal", they propound to explain something by not explaining it. That's lazy!
	Season 8 / Episode 4: - Roadrunners Dana Scully: Him? That thing in my spine is a him?
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Je Souhaite Mulder: I can't believe you don't want butter on your popcorn. Uggh. It's un-American. Dana Scully: "Caddyshack", Mulder? Mulder: It's a classic American movie. Dana Scully: That's what every guy says. It's a guy movie. Mulder: Okay, when you invite me over to your place we can watch Steel Magnolias. Dana Scully: So, um... What's the occasion? Mulder: I don't know. Just felt like the thing to do. Cheers. Dana Scully: Cheers. Mulder: I don't know if you noticed but, um, I never made the world a happier place. Dana Scully: Well, I'm fairly happy. That's something. So what was your final wish, anyway?
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - Je Souhaite Mulder: Then there is the interesting way in which Mr Flanken died. Dana Scully: How's that? Mulder: Chronic morbid tumescence. Dana Scully: You don't mean what I think you mean? Mulder: SCHWING! On April 4, 1978, he was admitted to Gateway Memorial Hospital with an extreme priapic condition. Apparently, he was quite the specimen. They had to raise the doorframe in order to wheel him into his hospital room.
	Season 7 / Episode 12: - X-COPS Coroner's Assistant: [while doing an autopsy] You got this camera crew recording everything. Why? Dana Scully: [Smiling at the camera] Because the FBI has nothing to hide.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Biogenesis (1) Dana Scully: [voice over] It began with an act of supreme violence, a big bang, expanding ever outward, cosmos spores of matter and gas, matter and gas, ten billion years ago. Whose idea was this? Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason? Were we part of that plan, ten billion years ago? Are we born only to die? To be fruitful and muliply and replenish the Earth before giving way to our generations? If there is a beginning, must there be an end? We burn like fires in our time, only to be extinguished, to surrender to the elements' eternal reclaim of matter and gas. Will this all end one day, life no longer passing to life? The Earth left barren like the stars above, like the cosmos? Will the hand that lit the flame let it burn down, let it burn out? Could we too become extinct? Or if this fire of life living inside us is meant to go on, who decides? Who tends the flames?
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Biogenesis (1) Dana Scully: Well, Mulder, if it were real then why would an American Indian artifact be fused in rock on the west coast of the African continent? Fox Mulder: In 1996, a rock from Mars was found in Antarctica. How did it get there? Dana Scully: It was from outer space. Fox Mulder: [Mulder smiles and does an exaggerated shrug]
	Season 6 / Episode 18: - Milagro Dana Scully: Loneliness is a choice.
	Season 6 / Episode 15: - Arcadia Gordy: So, how was your first night? Peaceful? Mulder: It was wonderful. We just spooned up and fell asleep like little baby cats. Isn't that right honey bunch? Dana Scully: That's right poopy head.
	Season 6 / Episode 14: - Monday Fox Mulder: Cover for me, will you? Dana Scully: When have I not?
	Season 6 / Episode 12: - One Son (2) Mulder: Scully, you're making this personal. Dana Scully: Because it is personal, Mulder. Because without the FBI personal interest is all that I have. And if you take that away than there is no reason for me to continue.
	Season 6 / Episode 10: - Tithonus Dana Scully: You know, most people want to live forever. Alfred Fellig: Most people are idiots, which is one of the reasons I don't. Dana Scully: I think you're wrong. How can you have too much life? There's too much to learn, to experience. Alfred Fellig: Seventy-five years is enough. Take my word for it. You live forever, sooner or later, you start to think about the big thing you're missing and that everybody else gets to find out about but you. Dana Scully: What about love? Alfred Fellig: What? Does that last forever? Forty years ago, I drove down to the city hall, down to the Hall of Records, Record Archives, whatever they call it. I wanted to look up my wife. It bothered me I couldn't remember her name. Love lasts 75 years, if you're lucky. You don't want to be around when it's gone. Dana Scully: [signs]
	Season 6 / Episode 3: - Triangle Walter Skinner: Use your head, Scully. It'll save your ass. Dana Scully: Save your own ass, sir. You'll save your head along with it.
	Season 6 / Episode 2: - Drive Dana Scully: [in a low voice, but angrily in Kersh's office] Big piles of manure!
	Season 5 / Episode 17: - All Souls Fox Mulder: And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history. Dana Scully: I was raised to believe that God has His reasons however mysterious. Fox Mulder: He may well have His reasons, but He seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out His job orders.
	Season 5 / Episode 5: - The Post-Modern Prometheus Dana Scully: Why are you humoring them Mulder? Fox Mulder: I'm not humoring them, Scully. This is a very serious crime. Dana Scully: So is perjury. So is calling out F.B.I. agents under false pretenses. Fox Mulder: For the purpose of what? Dana Scully: Isn't it obvious? I think what we're seeing here is an example of a culture for whom daytime talk shows and tabloid headlines have become a reality against which they measure their lives. A culture so obsessed by the media and a chance for self-dramatization that they'll do anything in order to gain a spotlight. Fox Mulder: I am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype. Not everybody's dream is to get on Jerry Springer. Dana Scully: Psychologists often speak of the denial of an unthinkable evil or a misplacement of shared fears, anxieties taking the form of a hideous monster for whom the most horrific human attributes can be ascribed. What we can't possibly imagine ourselves capable of we can blame of the ogre, on the hunchback, on the lowly half-breed. Common sense alone will tell you that these legends, these unverified rumors, are ridiculous. Fox Mulder: But nonetheless, unverifiable and, therefore, true in the sense that they're believed to be true. Dana Scully: Is there anything that you don't believe in, Mulder?
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - Leonard Betts Fox Mulder: Worms. You cut a worm in half, you get two. Dana Scully: Mulder, they're worms.
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Unruhe Fox Mulder: [Interrogating Gerald Schnauz] Do you want to tell us about the first time you were arrested, Gerry? Dana Scully: In 1980 you attacked your father with an axe handle. You beat him so severely that he spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair. Gerry Schnauz: I was not jailed, I was institutionalized. I had a kind of... chemical imbalance. Fox Mulder: Yeah, [reading from folder] 'Gerald Thomas Schnauz diagnosed and treated for a paranoid schizophrenic disorder. Six years in Melvoyne Psychiatic Hospital. Released 1986.' So what have you been up to since 1986, Gerry? Gerry Schnauz: Taking care of my father. Looking after him 24 hours a day. Making amends. He, uh... passed away in January. Fox Mulder: How did you feel about that? Gerry Schnauz: Sad... Fox Mulder: It says here you have a sister. Where is your sister, Gerry? Gerry Schnauz: She passed... Fox Mulder: Actually, it says here she committed suicide in 1980. God, that was a bad year. What else happened in 1980, Gerry? Gerry Schnauz: [Heated, almost indignant] Well, John Lennon got shot...
	Season 3 / Episode 18: - Teso Dos Bichos Dana Scully: Have you been drinking yaje, Mulder?
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Piper Maru (1) Wayne Morgan: What the hell is that? Fox Mulder: Looks like the fuselage of a plane. Dana Scully: It's a North American P-51 Mustang. Wayne Morgan: Yeah, sure is. Fox Mulder: I just got very turned on.
	Season 3 / Episode 11: - Revelations Dana Scully: Mulder, would you do me a favor? Dana Scully: Would you smell Mr. Jarvis?
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - Oubliette Dana Scully: I hate to say this, Mulder, but I think you just ran out of credibility.
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - The List Fox Mulder: Every major world religion encompasses the idea of life after death. That means millions, even billions, of people believe in some kind of transmigration or rebirth of the soul. Dana Scully: I'm sorry, Mulder. That's not what I learned in catechism. Fox Mulder: Well, even Christianity teaches about the resurrection and ascendancy of the heavenly body.
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Dana Scully: There's something you haven't explained. Can you see your own end? Clyde Bruckman: I see our end. We end up in bed together. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I don't mean to offend you or scare you, but not here, not this bed. I just mean I see us quite clearly in bed together. You're holding my hand very tenderly, and you're looking at me with such compassion and I feel - tears are streaming down my face - I feel so grateful because it's just a very special moment neither of us will ever forget. Dana Scully: Mr. Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are misses. Clyde Bruckman: I just call them as I see them.
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Dana Scully: Nobody does anything without a reason.
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Mulder: Be honest, Scully, doesn't that propane tank bear more than a light resemblance to a little, fat, white Nazi storm trooper? Dana Scully: Mulder, the human mind naturally seeks meaningful patterns in things that don't inherently have any. Given the suggestion of a particular image, you can't help but see that shape somewhere. If that tank weren't there, you'd see it in a rock or in a tree... Mulder: Did you answer my question? Dana Scully: Yes, it looks like a fat, white, Nazi storm trooper, but that only proves my point.
	Season 2 / Episode 24: - Our Town Dana Scully: What are you talking about? Fox Mulder: Some cannibalistic rituals are enacted with the belief that they can prolong life. Dana Scully: Cannibalism is one thing, but increasing longevity by eating human flesh... Fox Mulder: Think about it. From vampirism to Catholicism, whether literally or symbolically, the reward for eating flesh is eternal life.

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