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Thomas Magnum Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“I've always felt at home on the ocean, even as a kid. Maybe that's why I spend so much time alone on it, even on the 4th of July. I know, the Fourth should be spent with your buddies drinking beer, or eating hot dogs at the ballpark, or hoping into a potato sack race with your best girl, or barbecuing in the back yard with your folks. Maybe for most Americans, but for me it's been a day to spend alone, to remember. So, here I was all alone on the ocean starting my annual Independence Day remembrance. At least I wouldn't get my fingers blown off by a cherry bomb.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 4: Home From the Sea
Tagged: Ocean, July 4, Barbecue, Independence Day
“Hawaii is one of those places that, keeps topping itself. Just when you think you'll never see another sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that only Gauguin could imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Wave Goodbye
Tagged: Hawaii, Beautiful, sunrise, gaugin, Unemployment
“After three days of surveillance, I was familiar with the rhythm of the street. At nine in the morning, those about to be sacrificed to the Hawaiian gods of sun, sea, and sand were making their ritualistic trek to the beach. I knew from experience that very few would return with their skin. At noon, the late risers and the serious souvenir hunters were prowling about, snatching up bargain buys on plastic hula skirts and cheap coral beads. At three-fifteen I got my afternoon treat. I called her Olga, for obvious reasons. The cops are pretty good about keeping hookers off the street during the day, but, I guess when you're as big as Olga, you can work any time you want. By sunset the last of the lobsters were returning from the beach, which meant my day was nearly over and all I had to show for it was a sore butt, and a case of heartburn.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 5: Mac's Back
Tagged: Hula Skirts, Coral Beads, Sunset, lobster, beach, Heartburn
“The death of a friend's never an easy thing to take, not in a rice paddy or on a pretty beach on Oahu. Either way, when they're young, it never makes sense.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Wave Goodbye
Tagged: Death Of A Friend, rice paddy, oahu, Dying Young
“Another cliché about getting information from bartenders is that no matter how sincere they sound, you know as soon as you're out the door, they're on the phone warning the guy you want to see. And this guy didn't strike me as being particularly different.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Wave Goodbye
Tagged: cliche, Bartenders
“One of the clichés of my profession is that to get information from a bartender you have to slip him some bills of various denominations; Bills that you can't afford, with pictures of unfamiliar presidents. And usually for information that isn't worth it. However, this was a special case and I wasn't in the mood for games.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Wave Goodbye
Tagged: Bartender, marked bills, Games
“Dreams are supposed to represent your subconscious wishes and conflicts. It's sort of a private movie you write, produce and direct. Only you can't hide your eyes in your dreams, even when they are scaring you to death.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Memories Are Forever
Tagged: Dreams, Subconscious, Fear
“I get these feelings...I guess a...I call them my 'little voice'. I know that sounds dumb, but it's like an early warning system, or a conscience. Or maybe, it's just a way of communicating to myself how I really feel about something deep down. I think we all have something like that. I think we communicate those deep down feelings with others that we care about and it's not just by talking about it. This doesn't make any sense, I'm sorry. I guess what I mean is if there's a real connection with somebody you care about ultimately they hear you and that's why I think T.C.'s gonna hear us.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 5: Under World
Tagged: Feelings, voice
“Remember I told you I didn't like getting egg on my face? Well, right now, I'm wearing a whole omelet.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: From Moscow to Maui
Tagged: egg on face, omelet, Shame
“There's something hypnotic about the climate in Hawaii: every day it's sunny and 80°; every day there are gentle trade winds to take the edge of the humidity; every day—until the Kona Winds come up. The Kona Winds come from the south, from somewhere in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, as they travel toward the unprotected chain of islands sitting vulnerable in the huge expanse of water, they pick up power, and speed, and force, finally crashing into the scattered pits of land. But the Kona Winds do more than whip the sea into a frenzy, they stir the blood and tear at the emotions, thrusting even temperate men into destinies they may later regret. I've always felt drawn to the land's end to watch the winds come in, as if I were somehow...part of the drama.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 6: The Kona Winds
Tagged: narrating, kona winds, Hawaii, pacific ocean
“This was one of those days I wish I'd listened to my mother and studied to be an orthodontist. Looking into someone's mouth has gotta be better than staring death in the face.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Dead Man's Channel
Tagged: mother, orthodontist, Death
“Rick: You better be right, sweetheart.

Magnum: Come on, when have I ever been wrong?

Rick: I can't count that high.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Dead Man's Channel
Tagged: Right, Wrong, Sick Burns
“Higgins: As you may have noticed, I've fired the groundskeeper. Until I can find a successor, I'd like you to assume some of the responsibilities.

Magnum: But Higgins, I don't know the first thing about gardening!

Higgins: I assure you, the kind of work I had in mind requires no intelligence whatsoever.

Magnum: Like what?

Higgins: Like distributing 1500 pounds of recycled vegetation that was delivered this morning.

Magnum: Recycled vegetation!? What do you mean 'recycled vegetation'? Recycled how?

Higgins: [smiles] Through a cow.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 2: Billy Joe Bob
Tagged: Gardening, Menial Labor, Manure
“Magnum: I'm not an intruder, I'm a guest!

Higgins: Guests eventually leave.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 1: Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too
Tagged: intruder, guest, unwanted guest
“hen I was 14 years old, my grandfather took me crabbing. Now, crabbing's a lot different from trout fishing. See, you tie the bait on the line, you drop it in the water, and when you feel the crab crawl up on the bait, and start nibbling away, you have to slowly raise the line to the surface and then net him as fast as you can. The only trouble is, by the time you can see the crab…he can see you. And nine times out of ten, he'll scuttle right back off that bait and disappear into the ocean. Now I guess that's what I always liked about it, the crab had as good a chance of a free meal as you did. But the best thing about crabbing, was that it taught you patience, concentration, and the second sense of when the time was right to sit, and wait it out.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 6: This Island Isn't Big Enough
Tagged: crabbing, Fishing, concetration
“So far this case had cost me my right to the wine cellar, the last cash in my pocket, and nearly my life. If that clerk was lying to me, I was gonna come back down here and shove that Robin Masters paperback in his ear!”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 1: Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too
Tagged: Revenge, Bad Advice
“Higgins: You have to get into the safe first, Magnum.

Magnum: [wiggles eyebrows] I know.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 1: China Doll
Tagged: strategy, safecracking
“Alice Cook: Why did you quit, Tom?

Magnum: It was nothing earth-shattering. One day I woke up age 33, and realized I'd never been 23.”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 1: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii
Tagged: Quitting, Aging
“Higgins: Don't ruin my whiskey with ice! I'm not a bloody American!

Magnum: Higgins, you yo-yo!”
— Thomas Magnum, Magnum, P.I., Season 1: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii
Tagged: anti-American, Yo-Yo
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