3rd Rock from the Sun (TV Series)

Body & Soul & Dick (1996)

John Lithgow: Dr. Dick Solomon

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Quotes 

• Dr. Dick Solomon : How can we honor the memory of a man like Leonard Hanlin? Well...

  [long pause] 

  Dr. Dick Solomon : He was governed by the laws of physics, as are all living things. It is a scientific fact that hearts and clocks slow down as they approach the speed of light: the point at which matter is converted into energy. Dr. Hanlin's heart approached that speed on Friday evening, at 7:57, according to the coroner, converting his matter into energy... Into pure white light. Though he is no longer with us... he is all around us.

• Dr. Dick Solomon : Behind his back, they deride him, but to his face they kiss his ass.

  Harry Solomon : Well, that's just the kind of stunt you can see only on cable.

• Dr. Leonard Hamlin : So tell me Dick, what do you think of my work?

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Mechanistic and disturbingly fascist, but pretentious high schoolers might find it thought-provoking.

• Harry Solomon : To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ahh, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : What's that from?

  Harry Solomon : I dunno, some Mel Gibson movie.

• [Dr. Hanlin just died. Earlier Mary was saying how she wished he would die] 

  Dr. Dick Solomon : [shouting enthusiastically]  Dr. Albright! You got your wish!

• Sally Solomon : [last lines - the whole family is gazing up at the night sky]  When *are* we going to leave this planet?

  Dr. Dick Solomon : When we know everything there is to know about life.

  Harry Solomon : Whoa, good thing we have cable.

• Dr. Dick Solomon : Eh, eh, eh, momentito. ¿Cual lengua hablamos?

  Sally Solomon : Español.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : ¿Cual es la lengua official del Ohio?

  Harry Solomon : Inglés.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Inglés. Entonces hablamos Inglés.

  Harry Solomon : Ahhhhhh.

  Sally Solomon : [as they're leaving, Sally is muttering]  English, Spanish, French, Italian...

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Earth! Go figure!

• Sally Solomon : [Tommy has just come in with a new girl friend]  Tommy, what happened to August?

  Tommy Solomon : August - well, August is bright and intelligent and funny, and I love to be with her, but... Cheryl's easy.

  Dr. Dick Solomon : So you're jeopardizing a meaningful relationship for pure physical pleasure.

  Tommy Solomon : Egg-zactly!

  Dr. Dick Solomon : Very well, carry on.