The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Tom Rooney: Jeremy

Quotes 

• Jeremy : Friedrich Nietzsche! We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche; he was the most important thinker of 19th Century!

  Elsa : Oh, please! Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig who was in love with his sister.

  Jeremy : He was not a chauvinist pig.

  Elsa : But he was in love with his sister.

  Brian Parks : Uh... 'scuse me? You guys? Yeah... there's a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn.

• Elsa : What've you got there?

  Jeremy : The Gutenberg Bible. It was in the Rare Books Room.

  Elsa : Think God's gonna save you?

  Jeremy : No. I don't believe in God.

  Elsa : You're holding on to that Bible pretty tight.

  Jeremy : I'm protecting it.

  [pause as Elsa glances at J.D. throwing books on the fire] 

  Jeremy : This Bible... is the first book ever printed. It represents... the dawn of the Age of Reason. As far as I'm concerned, the written word is mankind's greatest achievement.

  [Elsa gives a light snort] 

  Jeremy : You can laugh... but if Western civilization is finished... I'm gonna' save at least one little piece of it.

• Jeremy : I thought you said it was too dangerous to go outside

  Sam Hall : I know I did.

• Sam Hall : If these people go outside, they will *freeze to death*!

  Library Security Guard : OK, what is this nonsense?

  Sam Hall : It's not nonsense, all right? Look, this *storm* is gonna get *worse*, and the people who are caught outside, they will freeze to death.

  Jeremy : Where are you getting this information?

  Sam Hall : My father's a climatologist. He works for the government.

  Jeremy : So, what are you suggesting we do?

  Sam Hall : We stay inside, we keep warm and we wait it out.