Marathon Man Quotes

You’re weak. Your father was weak in his way. Your brother in his and now you in yours. - View Quote Details on You’re weak. Your father was weak in his way. Your…
Oh, don’t worry. I’m not going into that cavity. That nerve’s already dying. A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive. So I’ll just drill into a healthy tooth until I reach the pulp. That is unless, of course, you can tell me that it’s safe. - View Quote Details on Oh, don’t worry. I’m not going into that cavity. That…
I envy you your school days. Enjoy them fully. It’s the last time in your life no one expects anything of you. - View Quote Details on I envy you your school days. Enjoy them fully. It’s…
Henry David ‘Doc’ Levy: [to Babe] Do you ever clean this armpit of a place? How can you live like this? - View Quote Details on Henry David ‘Doc’ Levy: [to Babe] Do you ever clean…
Peter Janeway: [referring to the Agency] Everything we do cuts both ways! - View Quote Details on Peter Janeway: [referring to the Agency] Everything we do cuts…
Thus far I find you rather repulsive, may I say that without hurting your feelings? - View Quote Details on Thus far I find you rather repulsive, may I say…
Professor Biesenthal: Well, you four have the dubious honor of having been picked from over two hundred applicants for this seminar. Well, let me just say this. There’s a shortage of natural resources. There’s a shortage of breathable air, there’s even a shortage of adequate claret. But there is no shortage of historians. We grind you out like link sausages. That’s called progress. Manufacturing doctorates is called progress. Well, I say, “Let us hush this cry of progress until ten thousand years have passed.” That’s a quote. Who said that? Come on, who said that? [none of the students answer] Tennyson! Alfred, Lord Tennyson. My God, but you can’t compete on a doctoral level and not know “Locksley Hall” and “Locksley Hall 60 Years Later”! I hope you all flunk. Dismissed. - View Quote Details on Professor Biesenthal: Well, you four have the dubious honor of…

About Marathon Man

Marathon Man is a 1976 paranoid thriller about a graduate student and obsessive runner in New York who is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his globe trotting brother, his European girlfriend, and a Nazi war criminal in hiding. Directed by John Schlesinger and written by William Goldman, based on his novel of the same name. It isn’t safe.taglines .