The Martian (film)

"At some point, everythings gonna go south on you... everythings going to go south and youre going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. Thats all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem... and you solve the next one... and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home. All right, questions? [every student’s hand shoots up]"

"If the oxygenator breaks down, Ill suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, Ill die of thirst. If the hab breaches, Ill just kind of implode. If none of those things happen, Ill eventually run out of food and starve to death. So, yeah... Yeah..."

"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!"

"Hi, Im Mark Watney and Im still alive... obviously."

"Good news: I may have a solution to my heating problem. Bad news: it involves me digging up the radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Now, if I remember my training correctly, one of the lessons was titled: "Dont dig up the big box of plutonium, Mark." I get it; RTGs are good for spacecraft, but if they rupture around humans... no more humans, which is why we buried it when we arrived. And planted that flag so we would never be stupid enough to accidentally go near it again. But, as long as I dont break it... [trails off, then starts laughing] I almost just said "Everything will be fine," out loud. Look, the point is, Im not cold anymore."

"Im the first person to be alone on an entire planet."

"[reading Watneys transcript] Okay, he says, "They dont know Im alive? What the--" F-word, F-word in gerund form, F-word again "--is wrong with you?"

"Help is only 140 million miles away."

"Every time something goes wrong, the world forgets why we fly."

"Jeff Daniels - Theodore "Teddy" Sanders"

"[after hearing he has to take the top off of the Mars Ascent Vehicle] I know what theyre doing. I know exactly what theyre doing. They just keep repeating "go faster than any man in the history of space travel", like thats a good thing. Like itll distract me from how insane their plan is. Yeah, I get to go faster than any man in the history of space travel, because youre launching me in a convertible. Actually its worse than that, because I wont even be able to control the thing. And by the way, physicists, when describing things like acceleration do not use the word "fast". So theyre only doing that in the hopes that I wont raise any objections to this lunacy, because I like the way "fastest man in the history of space travel" sounds. I do like the way it sounds... I mean, I like it a lot. [pauses] Im not gonna tell them that."

"I mean, what are we gonna say, "Dear America, remember that astronaut we killed and had a really nice funeral for? Turns out hes alive and we left him on Mars. Our bad. Sincerely, NASA". I mean, do you realize the shit storm that is about to hit us?"