Quotes

Knowing

John Koestler: I found evidence of a series of super-flares from a star in the outer-Pleiades's region.
Phil Bergman: Right. Ratings were off the chart.
John Koestler: We were both wrong. The numbers are a warning, but not just to me or any random group. They're a warning to everyone.
Phil Bergman: Okay. You're officially scaring the shit out of me right now.
John Koestler: The super-flare, in our own solar system. A 100 microtesla wave of radiation that would destroy our ozone layer, killing every living organism on the planet.
Phil Bergman: We have to let everyone know. We have to call the NOAA.
John Koestler: They already know. The announcement will come anytime now. I thought there was some purpose to all this. Why did I get this prediction if there's nothing I can do about it? How am I supposed to stop the end of the world?

John Koestler: I'm not saying that 81 people are going to die tomorrow, okay? I'm just trying to understand why THIS is SAYING they will!
Phil Bergman: Okay, it's spooky, all right? I'll grant you. It's more than spooky. But just step back, all right? You have all these uncircled numbers with no sequence to them. I mean, numerology, kabbalah, pythagorean cults, there are systems that find meaning in numbers, and they are a dime a dozen. Why? Because people see what they want to see in them.

Caleb Koestler: I can't consume that. I've decided to become a vegetarian.
John Koestler: Well, when were you planning on telling the guy who buys the groceries around here?
Caleb Koestler: Are you deaf? I just told you now, Dad.

Grace: How's my nephew?
John Koestler: Decided to become a vegetarian.
Grace: A what?
John Koestler: Why? You got a problem with that?
Grace: You're not feeding him Dad's famous Sunday night hot dogs again, are you?

Phil Bergman: Right now my scientific mind is telling me to have nothing more to do with this. And yours should, too.

Phil Bergman: [talking to John, referring to his own sister-in-law] She's in town this Friday and she thinks you're "intriguing", which I thought was code for "gay", but apparently not because she has asked if you would join us for dinner

News Anchor: [on flickering TV] We're going to stay on the air as long as possible. All we can say is what we've been repeating all morning. Get to any kind of underground shelter. We've been told the satellite...
[His speech is garbled out]

Principal (2009): Fifty years ago, the students and faculty of William Dawes Elementary imagined what the future might hold. Today, we unveil their legacy.

John Koestler: The day Allison died in the fire, it's on the list too, from a piece of paper that's been buried in the ground for five decades.

John Koestler: I know how this sounds, but I've matched these number to the dates of every major global disaster for the last 50 years in perfect sequence, except for three. And these events haven't occurred yet, starting with this one. So tomorrow, somewhere on the planet, this number string predicts that 81 people are gonna die in some kind of tragedy.

[John makes it to the gas station looking for Diana and the kids. All he can see is people panicking]
Army General: [from TV] Everyone needs to do this immediately. We are facing a natural threat of global proportions, and this is very little that this government...
Cashier: Same thing happened with Y2K. They are gonna wake up tomorrow morning feeling pretty stupid.
[a customer at the window nods in agreement before John pushes said customer aside]
John Koestler: Thirty minutes ago, there was a woman here. She was screaming! She was with a kid! He was on your pay phone! He's a nine-year-old kid!
Cashier: Some guy took the lady's car with the kids inside. Drove right off with it.
John Koestler: The woman, where'd she go?
Cashier: [points] That way!

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