The X Files Quotes

Scully: You've got that look on your face, Mulder.
Mulder: What look is that?
Scully: The kind when you've forgotten your keys and you're trying to figure out how to get back in the house.

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Mulder: They told me that even though my deodorant is made for a woman, it's strong enough for a man.

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Ish: I sense you are different, FBI. You're more open to Native American belief than some Native Americans.You even have an Indian name - Fox. You should be Running Fox, or Sneaky Fox.
Mulder: Just as long as it's not Spooky Fox.

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Scully: What do you think?
Mulder: I think I'm going to suggest we sleep with the lights on.

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Mulder: I'm looking for my dog. His name is Heinrich. He's a Norwegian Elkhound. I use him to hunt moose!

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Det. Fiore: Best we can figure, it was some kind of payback.
Mulder: For what?
Det. Fiore: Well, around that time, the organized crime division was doing a major sweep in Chinatown.
Mulder: The Triads.
Det. Fiore: Yeah. Some very heavy busts went down against the Woo Shing Woo. A lot of smack never made it to the street. You can bet there were some pretty pissed off people playing mahjong that week.
Mulder: So you think that Charlie Morris was killed as a warning to back off?
Det. Fiore: I think they picked a cop - any cop - and they whacked him.

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Mulder: Why is it still so hard for you to believe, even when all the evidence suggests extraordinary phenomena?
Scully: Because sometimes ...
Mulder: What?
Scully: ... looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.

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Mulder: You got a brother, don't you, Scully?
Scully: Yeah, I've got an older one and a younger one.
Mulder: Well, have you ever thought about calling one of them all day long and then all of a sudden the phone rings and it's one of them calling you?
Scully: Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?

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Mulder: I don't believe you.
Deep Throat: There are limits to my knowledge, Mr. Mulder.

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Deep Throat: Calling it a night, Mr. Mulder?
Mulder: My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on.

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Scully: Who is this "Deep Throat" character? I mean, we don't know anything about him. What his name is, what he does...
Mulder: He's in a delicate position. He has access to information and indiscretion could expose him.
Scully: You don't know that this isn't just a game with him. He's toying with you. Rationing out the facts.
Mulder: You think he does it because he gets off on it?
Scully: No. I think he does it because you do.

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Scully: Okay, Mulder. But I'm warning you, if this is monkey pee, you're on your own.

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Deep Throat: [last words] Trust no one.

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Scully: Mulder, there are thousands of scientists working on the Human Genome project.
Mulder: Yeah, but only one who decided to go bungee jumping with medical gauze wrapped around his neck.

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Mulder: Before I could only trust myself. Now I can only trust you. And they have taken you away from me.

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Scully: I was told by the Assistant Director that Mulder was gone.
Agent Morris: So?
Scully: So, whenever he's away, I feed his fish.

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Scully: ...Flatworms are what are known as obligate endoparasites. They live inside of the host entering the body through ingestion of larvae or eggs. They are not creatures that go around attacking people.
Mulder: That's good. I didn't wanna tell Skinner his murder suspect was a giant bloodsucking worm.

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Scully: Mulder, this is amazing! [looking at the flukeman] its vestigial features seem parasitic, but it has primate physiology. Where the hell did it come from?
Mulder: I don't know. But it looks like I'm gonna have to tell Skinner that his suspect is a giant bloodsucking worm after all.

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Scully: Somebody shoved this under my door. I guess you really do have a friend in the FBI. And, Mulder, when you see Skinner to hand in field report, I hope that you know that I'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to leave.

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Mulder: You know, sometimes, it just gets really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles. You know?
Scully: It's not exactly as if you've ever tried to fit into the program.

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Mulder: Scientist say three species become extict everyday. Who knows how many new ones are being created?

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Langly: L.S.D.M. Obviously, you haven't read our August edition of "T.L.G."
Mulder: Oh, sorry boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to "Celebrity Skin."

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Frohike: So Mulder, where's your little partner?
Mulder: She couldn't come. She was afraid of her love for you.

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Mulder: [in response to some suggestive remarks about Scully] You know, Frohike, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name.

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Mulder: Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by the fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.

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Mulder: Mrs. McRoberts?
Bonnie McRoberts: Yes?
Mulder: This is Sheriff Spencer, and I'm Special Agent Fox Mulder, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. May we come in?
Bonnie McRoberts: I'm late for work.
Mulder: You can blame me.

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Edward Funsch: [realises he needs to get off the bus] Excuse me?
Bus Driver: Wait for the next stop.
Edward Funsch: Please, I'm on the wrong bus.
Bus Driver: Just wait for the next stop.
Edward Funsch: [starts to panic] Open the door... OPEN THE DOOR!!! OPEN THE DOOR, DAMN IT!!!

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Scully: [perplexed] This body has all of the secondary, but none of the primary symptoms of having been in a fire! It's almost as if...
Mulder: What?
Scully: It's almost as if his body believed that it was burning.

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Krycek: Scully's a problem. A much larger problem than you described.
The Cigarette Smoking Man: Every problem has a solution.

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Mulder: [Mr. X hands Mulder an envelope] What's this?
Mr. X: Data from a top secret military project. Born of the idea that sleep was the soldier's greatest enemy.
Mulder: Grissom was conducting sleep deprivation experiments on Parris Island?
Mr. X: Not deprivation. Eradication.
Mulder: Why?
Mr. X: Why else? To build a better soldier. Sustained wakefulness dulls fear, heightens aggression. Science had just put a man on the moon. So now they looked to science to win a losing war.
Mulder: And Willig and Cole were the lab rats.
Mr. X: Lab rats with the highest kill ratio in the Marine Corps. Four thousand-plus confirmed kills for a thirteen-man squad.
Mulder: You think Cole's behind what's happening now?
Mr. X: I'm not here to do your thinking, Agent Mulder. All I know is, that Augustus Cole hasn't slept in twenty-four years.

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