Robert Lutece: Are you going to just sit there?
Rosalind Lutece: As compared to what? Standing?
Robert Lutece: Not standing. Rowing.
Rosalind Lutece: Rowing? I hadn't planned on it.
Robert Lutece: So you expect me to shoulder the burden.
Booker: What's this?
Rosalind Lutece: No, but I do expect you to do all the rowing.
Robert Lutece: And why is that?
Rosalind Lutece: Coming here was your idea.
Robert Lutece: My idea?
Rosalind Lutece: I've made it very clear that I don't believe in the exercise.
Robert Lutece: The rowing?
Rosalind Lutece: No. I imagine that's wonderful exercise.
Robert Lutece: Then what?
Rosalind Lutece: The entire thought experiment.
Booker: Excuse me. How much longer?
Robert Lutece: One goes into an experiment knowing one could fail.
Rosalind Lutece: But one does not undertake an experiment knowing one has failed.
Robert Lutece: Can we get back to the rowing?
Rosalind Lutece: I suggest you do or we're never going to get there.
Robert Lutece: No, I mean I'd greatly appreciate it if you would assist.
Rosalind Lutece: Perhaps you should ask him? I imagine he has a greater interest in getting there than I do.
Robert Lutece: I suppose he does. But there's no point in asking.
Rosalind Lutece: Why not?
Robert Lutece: Because he doesn't row.
Rosalind Lutece: He doesn't row?
Robert Lutece: No. He doesn't row.
Rosalind Lutece: Ah. I see what you mean.
Rosalind Lutece: We've arrived.
Rosalind Lutece: Shall we tell him when we'll be returning?
Robert Lutece: Will that change anything?
Rosalind Lutece: It might give him some comfort.
Robert Lutece: At least that's something we can agree on.
Booker: Hey, is someone meeting me here?
Robert Lutece: I'd certainly hope so.
Rosalind Lutece: It does seem like a dreadful place to be stranded.


Booker: But what is she? Alive or dead?
Robert Lutece: Why do you ask "what?"
Rosalind Lutece: When the delicious question is "when?"
Robert Lutece: The only difference between past and present...
Rosalind Lutece: ...is semantics.
Robert Lutece: Lives, lived, will live.
Rosalind Lutece: Dies, died, will die.
Robert Lutece: If we could perceive time as it truly was...
Rosalind Lutece: What reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?