Ichabod Crane quotes from Sleepy Hollow

Ichabod Crane

  This is precisely the abuse of centralised federal power that Thomas Jefferson warned us against.

Ichabod Crane

  [to an agent holding Crane captive]  Your brogues are loosening.  [pauses]  Your shoes are untied.  [knocks out said agent when said agent looks down]  Oldest trick in the book.  And that's coming from me.

Ichabod Crane

  [pointing to the Jefferson Memorial]  But, this fellow back here, Thomas Jefferson, once said something that I think of often: he said, "I like the dreams of the future better than the histories of the past."

Ichabod Crane

  So, Washington sent me to fight the Horseman, knowing it would mean my death.

Ichabod Crane

  I marvel at these wondrous items: dolls that speak…robots that transform…putty that's…is silly.  In my day, all we had to entertain ourselves was a wooden hoop and a stick.  And woe the day the stick broke.

Ichabod Crane

  [after being shot with the Turricula Ignis]  I am become…war.

Ichabod Crane

  I have found a way back from Purgatory, the Catacombs, and New Jersey.  We will return.

Ichabod Crane

  [to Henry Parrish]  This…anger, is anger worth swearing servitude to the will of a tyrant?  Is hatred worth sacrificing your freedom?

Ichabod Crane

  [with pride]  I've registered to vote.

Frank Irving

You said you cut off his head.

Ichabod Crane

First, I shot him. He rose back up. Cutting off his head seemed to be the next logical step.

Abbie Mills

Two hundred and fifty years, huh? Civil War didn't wake you? Noisy neighbors to the south. Did you get up to pee? Don't know about you, but I'm getting up to pee every seventy-five, eighty years.

Ichabod Crane

Are you quite finished? Because most of what you say is unintelligible gibberish to me. It's like watching a chicken cluck.  And, when did it become acceptable for ladies to wear trousers?

Ichabod Crane

That building used to be a livery stables.

Abbie Mills

Yeah? Well, now it's a Starbucks—where they make coffee.

Ichabod Crane

And that building is also a Starbucks?

Abbie Mills

Yep.

Ichabod Crane

Well, how many are there?

Abbie Mills

Per block?

Ichabod Crane

Is there a law?

Abbie Mills

I will literally pay you to stop talking.

Ichabod Crane

I would happily accept because I am in need of currency.

Abbie Mills

You dropped your gun.

Ichabod Crane

It was empty.

Abbie Mills

You only fired one shot.

Ichabod Crane

There are more?

Jenny Mills

Are you Abbie's new boyfriend?

Ichabod Crane

We are amicable, and yes, I am male, but I suspect you're implying something else.

Jenny Mills

What's your name, tall, dark, and British?

Ichabod Crane

My name is Ichabod Crane.

Jenny Mills

What do your friends call you? "Icky"?

Ichabod Crane

Not if they wish to remain my friends.