“You know that feeling you get when a thing is new, and the person you're into gets sick, or there's an emergency, it makes you realize, wow, how much you care about them?”— Kelly Hutchinson, Nick Prager, Brandon Scott, imdb.com
“[April 26, 1986: Meeting in the power plant office, engineer Anatoly Sitnikov reports high radiation in reactor 4] Dyatlov: What's wrong with you? How'd you get that number from feedwater leaking from a blown tank? Anatoly Sitnikov: You don't. Dyatlov: Then what the fuck are you talking about? Sitni…”— Craig Mazin, Paul Ritter, Anatoly Dyatlov, imdb.com
“[April 26, 1986: Immediately after the explosion, deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov stands shocked as shift supervisor Aleksandr Akimov calls his name repeatedly and alarms blare] Aleksandr Akimov: Comrade Dyatlov? Comrade Dyatlov?! Anatoly Dyatlov: What just happened? Leonid Toptunov: I don't k…”— Craig Mazin, Paul Ritter, Anatoly Dyatlov, imdb.com
“Buzz Lightyear: This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here? All Aliens: [pointing up] The clawwwwwwwww!”— Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Bud Luckey, Buzz Lightyear (voice), Tim Allen, imdb.com
“Michaela Stone: Where's, uh... where's mom and Jared? Grandpa Steve: I texted with Jared. He couldn't make it over; work emergency. Michaela Stone: And mom? Grandpa Steve: Your mom got sick. She... she fought so hard. Michaela Stone: What do you... what do you mean sick? Grandpa Steve: She loved you…”— Jeff Rake, Michaela Stone, Melissa Roxburgh, imdb.com
“Come on, all the long distance lines are down? What about the satellite? Is it snowing in space? Don't you have some kind of a line that you keep open for emergencies or for celebrities? I'm both. I'm a celebrity in an emergency.”— Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis, Phil Connors, Bill Murray, imdb.com
“I don't go into town anymore. I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why. When I speak, women fall sick and stars drop like dead birds from the night. My home, instead, is on a ridge where horses bow their heads and bear the elements. Alone, I conduct experiments. I communicate with st…”— Austen Leah Rosenfeld, narrativemagazine.com
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“What would we do without our enemies? Exterior emergencies or shocks are indispensable to force individuals out of their natural laziness and set routines — and also to periodically break the collective frameworks that imprison them.”— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, amazon.com