The Search for John Gissing Quotes

The Search for John Gissing is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Search for John Gissing stopped airing in 1970.

It features Jack Binder as producer, Larry Groupé in charge of musical score, and Sue Gibson (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

The Search for John Gissing is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Search for John Gissing is 91mins. long.

The Search for John Gissing Quotes

• (Unnamed) "Business is the new war. My generation; we didn't have a battle to fight. We were the fortunate ones. No World War II. Missed Vietnam. Too old for Desert Storm. So this; my career and what I make of my life; is the battle of my life. This is my war. And the enemy has a nun that's willing to "blow" me."

• (Unnamed) "This is my chair, I brought it from France, and I don't want anyone to sit in it. My chair."

• (Unnamed) "Are they in Hannigan's office? Gwyneth and Fuller and that lot?"
• (Unnamed) "Yeah. Hannigan's office, yeah."
• (Unnamed) "And Fuller's office is empty?"
• (Unnamed) "Yeah."
• (Unnamed) "Good, because I have to go and urinate in that chair of his."
• (Unnamed) "Good. Ok, you do that."

• (Unnamed) "I've had two wives, three children, each with a corner of their hearts that I'm not allowed to visit."

• (Unnamed) "This can go one of two ways. I can give you fifty pounds, or I can tell you a really good story about life and people and the hollow, hungry, heartless times that you and I are living in."
• (Unnamed) "I'll have to go with the fifty quid."
• (Unnamed) "I could have phoned that one in from the couch."

• (Unnamed) "I don't like that guy."
• (Unnamed) "Who, Fuller? He's just French. I'm sure normally he's a nice guy."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, I'm sure he's a saint."

• (Unnamed) "I never had to wait an hour for a meeting in my life. Well, once, but the man was shot in the back of the head."

• (Unnamed) "The truth is I don't know what my war is, I don't know what's on the horizon. I just know that for this one moment here, for the first time in a long time, everything has worked out wonderfully."

• (Unnamed) "I've gotta ask you a question, and it's a simple question so don't get angry. Why would you come to another country with so little cash?"
• (Unnamed) "Why? A, Because the cash I do have doesn't work in this bizarro country, Ok? And B, because I was given information by a psycho asshole who basically said he was going to pick me up and ferret my dizzy ass around London. So I didn't need any cash. That's why. How about you, Travel dot com? What's your excuse? How come don't have any cash on you?"
• (Unnamed) "Oh my God. What did I say before we left the house? I said Hey Mat, should I go to the bank and get some cash? And you said no, we won't need any cash because I've got a psycho asshole who's going to ferret my dizzy ass all around London. We don't need cash."
• (Unnamed) "Ok. Fine. You said that. Ok."

• (Unnamed) "You know what's a word we don't use a lot, and it's a shame because it's a good word. Buggered."
• (Unnamed) "Really? You don't use that word?"
• (Unnamed) "Never caught on with the Americans. Too bad, cause it's a good word, a good multipurpose word. You guys use it to describe sex, right?"
• (Unnamed) "One particular variation, yes."
• (Unnamed) "And for getting screwed over? Like in this case here it would be correct for me to say John, you really buggered me."

• (Unnamed) "Why didn't you just say it was John Gissing? Because you don't want to look bad?"
• (Unnamed) "Honey, the man just got a toilet's eye view of my ass, how much worse could I look?"

• (Unnamed) "The fact that we weren't met at Heathrow was frustrating, I can't deny that. But when you work for one of these international conglomerates like I do you kind of expect that every now and then there'll be a paper jam that takes your life along with it."

• (Unnamed) "What did he say?"
• (Unnamed) "What did he say? He said your brother is a loser and a stoner."

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