Numb3rs Quotes

Charlie Eppes: My circle tangent joke went right over the senator's head.

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Amita Ramanujan: Byzantines fighting side by side with Cowboys and Indians?
Charlie Eppes: I had an imaginative childhood.

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Charlie Eppes: [showing his laptop monitor to David and Colby] Now, this is Professor Stanley Novich, and this is where the door to his lab used to be.
David Sinclair: What do you mean, "used to be"?
Charlie Eppes: I had one of my Dad's contractor friends bring in a crew last night. They drywalled his doorway, they painted it to match the wall. [sniggers]

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David Sinclair: The dude has always made me crazy. Ever know anyone like that?
Don Eppes: Well, you know Charlie, right?

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William Bradford: You want to feel better? Take a pill. You want to get right? Face the truth.

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William Bradford: Coffee?
Don Eppes: Ah, yeah. Er, no. Yeah, sure.
William Bradford: Maybe decaf.

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Don Eppes: [to Bradford, screaming] I'm their boss. It's not my job to trust them, it's their job to trust me!

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"Colby Granger": "Good thing I stretched this morning."
"Che Lobo": "What are you doing?"
"Colby Granger": "If you show up at the drop, he's gonna kill you. If I show up, at least there's a chance he'll settle for the money"
"Che Lobo": "Maybe he'll kill you too."
"Colby Granger": "I know, doesn't seem fair does it?" [Colby starts running with duffel bag of cash]

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Alan Eppes: Great! Now I have two jaded, world-weary sons!
Don Eppes: And this one's got a shrink to prove it.

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Oswald Kittner: Unless there's a self-perpetuating element involved, like, er, nano-technology. Okay, you know when you stack up champagne glasses and fill them with champagne. You only pour the champagne into the top glass, and then it overflows to the others. It requires resources applied in one location, then it spreads.
Alan Eppes: Oh, good God, another one?

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Charlie Eppes: Hey, do me a favour. Go find Dr. Finch. Tell her we need a priority run on the super computer, and, you know, be convincing.
Oswald Kittner: I'll tell her the fate of democracy's at stake.
Charlie Eppes: I like that.

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Don Eppes: Yeah, relax, you got the fifth best shot in the country covering your ass.
Ian Edgerton: [relaxes his hand and makes his hands shake] Hey, fourth. You don't wanna ask how I moved up one spot.

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Charlie Eppes: I can't believe it. Right in the middle of my lecture!
Alan Eppes: Charlie, I'm as embarrassed as you are.
Charlie Eppes: You were snoring!

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Ian Edgerton: [after threading a kill shot through two closed pickup truck cab windows and a suspect's skull] That oughtta move me up to number three.

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[Suspect runs out of apartment building and jumps in car]
Ian Edgerton: [taps on window with a gun] Bet I can pull the trigger before you hit the gas.

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Charlie Eppes: [reading from the Manifesto] When biotechnology creates a marketplace where genetic material, who we are, can be bought and sold like a slave in the block, there is no freedom there.

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Charlie Eppes: Are we all so bad down here?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Beauty and fragility of life on Earth, it takes my breath away.
Charlie Eppes: So what's your problem?
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: That I will habituate and lose the vision.

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Charlie Eppes: I feel like I'm in some dream with the ghost Larry, and I just want to wake up and talk to the real guy.

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Dr. Millie Finch: One small step for Larry, one giant leap for CalSci.

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Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: [voicemail] Greetings, orbiting homo sapiens, I am orbiting your lovely blue planet until Earth-year 2007. You may leave a message here, or simply call out to the heavens. I will be listening.

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Alan Eppes: That's why using the water system makes perfect sense. They don't need to spread the poison themselves, the city distribution system will do the work for them!

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William Bradford: You talk a lot about your work, but I want to go a little further. What else is in your life?
Don Eppes: Wha' … that I'm a workaholic with commitment issues that has a hard time trusting people, isn't enough?

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Don Eppes: You were … actually walking home?
Charlie Eppes: Well, yeah, 'cause once I … once I got to the road, it was pretty easy.
Don Eppes: I mean, he's eight.
Charlie Eppes: I like walking. You know, that's like … that's my sport. You got hockey, you got baseball. I walk.
Don Eppes: Like … like speed walking?
Charlie Eppes: No, like normal … you've never taken a walk?

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Charlie Eppes: Hey, how you doin', I'm Charlie.
Sari Kinshasa: Sari Kinshasa.
Alan Eppes: And I'm Alan.
Sari Kinshasa: Hello. You're FBI agents?
Charlie Eppes: I'm an FBI consultant.
Alan Eppes: I'm an FBI … dad.

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Ashby: I'm a speed dial away from collapsing this bridge.

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Charlie Eppes: So I am an FBI. You know, I work for the FBI.
Woman: Can't you protect him?
Charlie Eppes: Well, uh, actually, I'm a mathematician.

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Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: Charles, the monks do not appreciate FBI agents knocking on their doors, especially during the morning contemplation.

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Charlie Eppes: Don, you have a big ego.
Don Eppes: Thanks.
Charlie Eppes: No, you have a ginormous ego.
Don Eppes: Thanks.

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Charlie Eppes: I know math is full of absolutes; unfortunately, the rest of the world isn't.

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Dr. Larry Fleinhardt: You can contemplate silence, but you can never find it.

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