Quotes by Doc Brown

Doc Brown: "Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?"
Marty: "Ronald Reagan."
Doc Brown: "Ronald Reagan? The actor? Ha! Then who's Vice President, Jerry Lewis?"

Marty, the future isn't written. It can be changed... you know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be.

Time traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: Women!

You future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you!

There's that word again, "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

Marty McFly: "Sounds pretty heavy."
Dr. Emmett Brown: "Weight has nothing to do with it."

Whoop! Almost forgot my luggage. Who knows if they've got cotton underwear in the future. I'm allergic to all synthetics.

If you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is in every corner drug store, but in 1955, its a little hard to come by!

No wonder your president has to be an actor. He's gotta look good on television.

Marty, you can't go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name. That's exactly what causes you to get into that accident in the future.

Well, there are plenty worse places to be than the Old West. I could've ended up in the Dark Ages. They probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something.

This reminds me of the time I attempted to reach the center of the earth. I'd been reading my favorite author, Jules Verne. I spent weeks preparing that expedition. I didn't even get this far. Course, I was only 12 at the time.

I didn't invent the time machine for financial gain! The intent here is to gain a clearer perception of humanity. Where we've been, where we're going, the pitfalls and the possibilities, the perils and the promise. Perhaps even an answer to that universal question, "Why?"

It's gonna be really hard waiting 30 years before I can talk to you about everything that's happened in the past few days.

It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointed straight at your head!

Dr. Emmett Brown: "You've got to come back with me!"
Marty McFly: "Where?"
Dr. Emmett Brown: "Back to the future!"

You're not thinking fourth dimensionally!

Marty: "Then where the hell are they?"
Doc Brown: "The appropriate question is, 'when' the hell are they?"

You're late! Do you have no concept of time?

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit.

Marty: "Within two hours?"
Doc Brown: "The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers."

Too bad the post office isn't as efficient as the weather service.

It works! I finally invent something that works!

Please, Marty, no one should know too much about their own destiny.

Marty: "Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88."
Doc Brown: "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."