October Sky

Homer:
Why're the jocks the only ones who get to go to college?

Roy Lee:
They're also the only ones who get the girls.

O'Dell:
God's honest truth, Homer. What are the chances... a bunch of kids from Coalwood... actually winning the national science fair?

Homer:
A million to one, O'Dell.

O'Dell:
That good? Well, why didn't you say so?

Quentin:
What do you want to know about rockets?

Homer:
Everything.

Roy Lee:
Let them have outer space. We got rock 'n' roll.

Roy Lee:
That thing had better fly, or you can kiss your chances of losing your virginity goodbye.

Homer:
You know, it, uh, won't fly unless somebody pushes the button. It's yours, if you want it.

Roy Lee:
I don't know why they'd drop a bomb on this place, be a heck of a waste of a bomb.

Roy Lee:
I'll tell you what's unbelievable... captain of the football team being jealous of you.

Principal Turner:
Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education.

Miss Riley:
Mmm-hmm.

Principal Turner:
Not false hopes.

Miss Riley:
False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life?

Principal Turner:
Miss Riley, once in a while... a lucky one... will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines.

Miss Riley:
How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.

O'Dell:
That's a good idea. Four unidentifiable high school students lost their lives early this morning when their toy rocket exploded.

Quentin:
They watched us get arrested. We're practically ex-convicts. They'll never dance with us.

O'Dell:
Jesus, Quentin, you don't know anything about women.

Roy Lee:
Prodigenous!

Leon Bolden:
Homer, I flew with the Red Tails in World War II. And seein' that rocket come at me... it almost took me back there.

Jim Hickam:
Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe.

Homer:
No. Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.

Homer:
Did you ever see Frankenstein and the wolf man?

Elsie:
Your father always has to be the big hero. I swear if he dies I won't shed a tear.