Quotes




Here are some of the coolest Nowhere Man quotes in no particular order. These quotes do a great job of describing the heart of the show and the drive of the hero.
  • "You're supposed to see the tricks, puppy pal, not the mirrors."- Dave "Eddie" Powers (Submitted by Larry Hertzog)
  • "The battles that I have fought with the enemy have not compared with the ones I have fought with myself. It's been a constant struggle to maintain the hope and faith that one day I'll get my life back."- Tom Veil
  • "Reality depends on perspective."- Tom Veil
  • "Every thing you remember, it isn't real, it never happened!"- Alexander Hale
  • "Take one step forward two steps back."- Tom Veil
  • "Well, that would be telling."- Tom/Alyson Veil
  • "There are six billion people on the planet today. Some say that makes individual lives more inconsequential, more desperate than ever before, not because of the numbers themselves but because of the anonymity. It's what makes us cling to those few precious memories that make us who we are, this is why a single photograph can have such importance and power, why the act of just holding it can validate an entire existence."- Tom Veil
  • "No matter how much you take away, everyone has something that belongs to them, to them and nobody else.  Everyone has something and no matter how deep you dig, you'll never get it."- Tom Veil
  • "All hell broke loose when you stepped out of the toilet in that restaurant and couldn't find your old lady."- Gus Shepard
  • "Every time you think you've got something, it's gone."- Gus Shepard
  • "I took photographs because I thought they were a record of the facts, an unblinking eye, and that my camera was a recorder of truth."- Tom Veil
  • "Hope? Let me tell you what you'll start hoping for. You'll hope that they'll make another move at you, that the next game will be a good one. You'll look forward to their making the next move because it keeps you sharp thinking that you can slip through it one more time."- Gus Shepard
  • "I want you to know that your pursuit of the truth, sometimes relentless pursuit of the truth, even though I hate it sometimes, I think it's the noblest quality you have. It's the reason I love you so much."- Laura
  • "The truth is unforgiving, don't shoot the messenger." -Tom Veil
  • "Trust me, you will always be a mystery." -Tom Veil to Alyson
  • "You'll never beat 'em at their own game." - Dave "Eddie" Powers
  • "Just because you can't explain something, it doesn't make the opposite of that something the truth." - Tom Veil
  • "As more of my memories come back, it becomes increasingly harder to distinguish fact from fiction, reality from utter fabrication. But, I must press on. Finding the truth is my only road home." - Tom Veil
  • "It's a thin thread that separates the life I once had." - Tom Veil
  • Tom, referring to the little computer: "I could just leave this here...walk away...and never look back."
    Alexander Hale: "Could you?"
  • "The minute something seems familiar to me it becomes suspicious." - Tom Veil
  • "Soon, all my memories will be gone. Without ceasing to breathe, I will cease to exist." - Tom Veil
  • "Everything they give you they can take back. Everything you thought you had, you don't. Absolute zero, Gentle Jack, bottom line." - Dave "Eddie" Powers
  • "I saw the truth." - Tom Veil
  • "That's it! Put your faith in the medical profession, buy Blue Cross!  You don't have any friends!" - Dave "Eddie" Powers
  • "You really hate me, don't you? Well, you created me, you son of a bitch. The man standing here with his finger on the trigger is your creation, and the rest of your life is up to me. All I have to do, I just have to make one small simple decision. A man like you is probably wondering why I would even hesitate. I mean, it's just a life, isn't it?...There are so many others. I mean, why should a person hesitate about taking one here and there...at the end of the day it's kind of like turning off a LIGHT SWITCH! (Pause) But then that would make me you. And that's something I could never live with." - Tom Veil to Richard Grace