checking quotes, aphorisms, statements, say
TaleSpin Rebecca: Everything you have to do is on the schedule. Just check off each item as you go. And while you're checking off, I'll be checking up on YOU. Check?
Baloo: Check.
Ghostbusters Dana Barrett: [to Venkman checking her room checking her bedroom for ghosts] That's the bedroom, but nothing ever happened in there!
Peter Venkman: What a crime.
Dana Barrett: You know, you don't act like a scientist.
Peter Venkman: They're usually pretty stiff.
Dana Barrett: You're more like a game show host.
Stargate Atlantis [the sensors have discovered a powerful energy field]
Maj. Sheppard: You think it's worth checking out?
Dr. McKay: Any significant energy emission generally indicates technological civilization.
Maj. Sheppard: So... you think it's worth checking out?
Dr. McKay: [sarcastically] I'm sorry. Yes. Energy field good.
[the ship begins to shake violently]
Dr. McKay: [seriously] Okay, maybe not.
What a Girl Wants Glynnis: Darling, darling, all I'm saying is before we let this hypothetical daughter blow your political career out of the water, we might at least consider doing some checking up on her
Henry: Now, checking up for what?
Glynnis: I don't know... criminal record, blood type, triple sixes on her scalp
Henry: Glynnis, she has a birth certificate, she has my photograph and she has my eyes.
Theodor Adorno Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
NCIS Tony: What are you doing?
Ziva: I'm checking into Locke's missing girlfriend. You?
Tony: Same.
Ziva: What? Why?
[...]
Tony: Checking her medical records.
Ziva: Why? Do you think she's been lying in some hospital unable to communicate?
Tony: No, I think she's been lying in a shallow grave unable to communicate.
Ziva: Medical records are privileged information. You need a subpoena.
Tony: Not if you have an IOU from a county clerk with a very expressive poker face.

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