Quotes

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Dr. Diane Fairfax: What do you see?
Dr. James Xavier: The city... as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.

Dr. James Xavier: Sam, we are virtually blind. All of us. You tell me that my eyes are perfect. Well, they're not. I'm blind to all but a tenth of the universe.
Dr. Sam Brant: My dear friend, only the gods see everything.
Dr. James Xavier: My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods.

Preacher: Are you a sinner? Do you wish to be saved?
Dr. James Xavier: Saved? No. I've come to tell you what I see. There are great darknesses. Farther than time itself. And beyond the darkness... a light that glows, changes... and in the center of the universe... the eye that sees us all.
[Looks up at the sky]
Dr. James Xavier: No!
Preacher: You see sin and the devil! But the lord has told us what to do about it. Said Matthew in Chapter Five, "If thine eye offends thee... pluck it out!"

Dr. James Xavier: The monkey's been conditioned, standard pleasure-pain technique.

Dr. Sam Brant: You're a fine doctor. You know what you're doing. But you only have one pair of eyes.

Dr. Diane Fairfax: Listen, Doctor, I've given up my own research to help the foundation and I won't be talked to as if I were a child in kindergarten.
Dr. James Xavier: I knew of your reputation, but I hadn't heard about your temper.

Dr. James Xavier: August 14th, notes on experiment designated "X." Experimental subject myself, James Xavier.

Dr. Diane Fairfax: James, why do you want to see so much?
Dr. James Xavier: Well, why do you want to go on breathing? To stay alive. It's much the same thing with me. I'm curious, intensely curious.

Dr. James Xavier: Dr. Fairfax...
Dr. Diane Fairfax: I think after tonight's work, you can call me Diane.
Dr. James Xavier: Thank you. I'd like to buy you a cup of coffee.
Dr. Diane Fairfax: That's the best experiment I've heard all night. You're on, Doctor.

Dr. James Xavier: It's like a splitting of the world. Vision is fragmented. More light than I've ever seen. Filled with light.

Party Dancer: I want you to dance with me. I like the way you look, kind of urgent. I like men who look urgent.

Dr. James Xavier: I know exactly what I'm doing. More exactly than any other doctor's ever known before. You think I'm mad? Well, watch. All of you, just watch.

Dr. James Xavier: You know, you're quite lovely.
Dr. Diane Fairfax: Thank you.
Dr. James Xavier: Matter of fact, you're very attractive.
Dr. Diane Fairfax: Well, one drink certainly makes you a different man.
Dr. James Xavier: Well, you could say I'm really seeing you for the first time. And that's the most interesting birthmark you have above the third rib on your left side.
Dr. Diane Fairfax: But how do you know that? Why, you can see me.
[turns around]
Dr. James Xavier: Oh, and your backbone's a sheer delight.

Dr. James Xavier: I see veins, organs, the blood rushing through your heart. I look at Diane, and she appears a perfect, breathing dissection.

Dr. James Xavier: What is happening is beyond my hopes. A cumulative effect. Soon, I'll be able to see what no man has ever seen.

Dr. James Xavier: With new eyes, we'll explore all the mysteries of creation. With knowledge there is power. The power to learn, to create, to do.

Crane: Hey, you boys over there. You two fellows, step right over here, you're embarrassing the girls.

Crane: One of the most fantastic performances ever to appear here in the carnival show. And you'll enjoy the fabulous things he can do with his fantastic eyes and mind.

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By what name was X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) officially released in India in English?