Chief Jesse Stone: I know who killed them.
Captain Healy: Do you have motive?
Chief Jesse Stone: No.
Captain Healy: Witnesses?
Chief Jesse Stone: No.
Captain Healy: Weapon?
Chief Jesse Stone: No.
Captain Healy: Hell, I'll warm up a cell right now.
Quotes from Tom Selleck movies and TV shows - page 2 of 4
Chief Jesse Stone: In all the years I've been a cop, I've never heard the police chief referred to as skipper.
Joe Marino: You son of a bitch!
Chief Jesse Stone: Chief son of a bitch, to you.
Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Is this official?
Chief Jesse Stone: No. It's personal.
Molly Crane: There's a dog in here.
Chief Jesse Stone: Witness protection.
Chief Jesse Stone: They seem to have an interest in me, and maybe I can encourage them to develop it.
Captain Healy: So these to people, they have an interest in killing people, and now they seem to have an interest in killing you?
Chief Jesse Stone: Is this a great country or what?
Chief Jesse Stone: You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not like in the movies. You've got about a half a second to figure out what needs to be done.
Abby Taylor: I guess you need to be that way if you're a policeman.
Chief Jesse Stone: Maybe I'm a policeman because I am that way.
Chief Jesse Stone: The tree doesn't grow very far from the apple.
Reporter: You the Chief?
Chief Jesse Stone: I am.
Reporter: How can you aren't in uniform?
Chief Jesse Stone: Casual Tuesday.
Mrs. Kornfeldt: Excuse me, Stewardess? Three chardonnays, please.
Mr. Kornfeldt: None for me, actually. I like to stay awake and alert.
Jen Kornfeldt: None for me, either.
Mrs. Kornfeldt: Okay, so, just the three chardonnays then.
Paul Cable: You like to do what you want, don't you?
Lorraine Kidston: Doesn't everybody?
Paul Cable: Some people do what they have to.
Higgins: How fiendishly deceptive of you, Magnum. I could have sworn I was hearing the emasculation of a large rodent. To my great surprise, I see the sounds are emanating from what I thought was a harmless musical instrument.
Magnum: Cute Higgins, real cute.
Higgins: Why Magnum? Why do this terrible thing?
Magnum: Higgins, I'll have you know I used to be very good. I was the second best sax player in my High School band!
Higgins: Well, how many sax players were there?!
Magnum: ...Anyway. I just saw this in a pawn shop window and thought I'd like to try and get my chops back.
Higgins: May I suggest that your "chops" are irretrievable.
Magnum: Higgins, did you come here just to abuse me!? (00:05:25)
Higgins: Magnum, l must say, l'm impressed.
Magnum: With my dictionary?
Higgins: No, with your living quarters. They're actually tidy.
Magnum: Don't act so surprised!
Higgins: Where is all the...usual unpleasantness, the abandoned bits of food and drink, the soiled garments, the sundry unidentifiable artifacts l expect to find when l walk in?
Magnum: A-HA! That is precisely my point. You *expect* to walk in. Higgins...l don't walk in on you, do l?
Higgins: Of course you do. All the time, as a matter of fact. But I look upon it as one of life's little unpleasantries, like a minor rash or an ingrown toenail. (00:04:25)
Magnum: If basketball was all there was to life, you'd be set.
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Mac: If you could do that all the way from Molokai, you might win, instead of finishing 87th.
I looked up the finishing order of last year's race, You came in behind a 12-year-old girl from Kauai. Kiki Kahuna.
Magnum: What do you want, Mac?
Mac: I thought you might wanna win this year. Or at least beat a 12-year-old girl.
Magnum: She's 13 by now. (00:21:30)
Magnum: I'm sorry Rick. I'm a little rusty on the serve. I just gotta get it up a little more, but when I do, it'll be a monster.
TC: Not with that follow through.
Magnum: What's wrong with it?
TC: You need more extension.
Magnum: I do?
TC: Mmm-hmm.
Rick: Try and keep this one on the court will you. We're running out of balls!
Magnum: OK, this one will be in Rick, I promise.
(00:03:10)
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