Kate & Leopold (2001)

Andrew Jack: Roebling

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Roebling : Time. Time, it has been proposed, is the fourth dimension. And yet, for mortal man, time has no dimension at all. We are like horses with blinders, seeing only what lies before us. Forever guessing the future and fabricating the past.

  [applause] 

  Leopold : Brilliant.

  Otis : Quite right, Your Grace.

  Roebling : How, you ask, can we break these shackles, and live not in the moment, but in the glorious expanse of time continued? Listen, and I shall tell you. The secret lies in the enduring power of our achievements, our creations!

  [applause] 

  Roebling : As the Pyramids testify to the Egyptians, so my glorious erection shall represent our culture in perpetuity!

  [points to the half-finished Brooklyn Bridge] 

  Roebling : Behold, rising before you, the greatest erection on the continent! The greatest erection of the age! The greatest erection on the planet!