Bones (TV Series)
The Feet on the Beach (2011)
Quotes
Dr. Douglas Filmore: Confrontation's not a natural state for me. I'm... Canadian.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Canadian or afraid?
Michelle Welton: Well, surprise, I've learned a lot from you. I've learned to try hard, and not take shortcuts.
[Michelle tears up the Columbia acceptance letter]
Michelle Welton: I've learned that it's wrong to cheat.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Oh. Really. What are you going to do?
Michelle Welton: Here's what I'll do. I'll work for a year and make money. And I'll take extra courses. And I'll get into Columbia on my own. And make you proud.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: You already have.
Michelle Welton: I want to be just like you.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: [Chuckles] That's sweet but I think you should aim a little higher.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: But come on, Bones. He's hurting, all right? Whether you're right or wrong, you levelled the guy.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He's a grown man.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sometimes that makes it hurt more. What makes us human, Bones, is we feel compassion and regret.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why is this so important to you, Booth?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Because I know the kind of person you are. And I think you should let others in on the secret too.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sometimes wouldn't you just like to be a person like the rest of us - instead of someone who just - paralyzes people?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Those of us who tell the truth have always endured harsh judgements. Copernicus. Galileo. I accept that as something I have to deal with.
Dr. Douglas Filmore: I'm sorry Dr. Brennan, but as far as we are concerned these are Canadian feet. And as such, they will be examined by an ordinary garden variety podiatrist.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: [to Bones] That's great. Now look what you've done... Thank you.
Dr. Douglas Filmore: I like to believe the fact that we walk upright is the reason our brains developed.
Kent Durham: Okay. Wait. Th-this is not what it looks like.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, looks like to me - you're trying to sell off your dead roommate's shoe collection.
Kent Durham: Okay, it is what it looks like. It-it's just not what you think.
Dr. Jack Hodgins: [to Filmore] You're in America now. It's okay to get *pissed* at Dr. B. She can take it.
Dr. Lance Sweets: You forged Michelle's application and applied to Columbia?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Could you not say that as though I'd killed three people?
Dr. Lance Sweets: I can't help you.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Why not? Some sort of professional code of ethics?
Dr. Lance Sweets: My own personal code of ethics. You should consider putting one together of your own.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: SHUT UP!
Dr. Lance Sweets: Excuse me?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: You know you have never had to put someone else's well being above your own - not ever! Well, I am a mother! Okay? And if I have to get my hands dirty to get my child ahead - I will!
Dr. Lance Sweets: What kind of example are you setting for Michelle?
Angela Montenegro: So we would get time of death wrong. But wait. Wouldn't everyone at the Body Farm know how to use that?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Yes, but from what Booth said only one of them had an alibi for what we thought was time of death. I'm guessing because he knew he'd need one.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: [after Michelle gets accepted to Columbia from Cam's application] You have something about this?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Angela says no... But this is a disapproving look.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Does it mean anything that it's all moot? Michelle is determined to go to Community College in outer Mongolia to be with her boyfriend.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm glad that you apologized to the Canadian. I'm proud of you, Bones.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I didn't apologize.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I thought...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: The word "apology" derives from the Ancient Greek "apologia" which means "a speech in defense." When I defended what I said to him, you told me that wasn't a real apology.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why don't you think of a word that means you feel bad for making someone else feel bad?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Contrite.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Ah!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: From the Latin "contritus" meaning "crushed by a sense of sin."
Special Agent Seeley Booth: There. That's it. Contrite. Okay, I'm happy that you contrited to the Canadian.
