"[from trailer] It is not an offspring of witchcraft or Satan. It was created by man. It will grow to be 15 feet tall. It will have huge eyes, webbed hands, hooked claws. It will walk upright. And it will mindlessly, mercilessly, kill every living thing it meets."

"[from TV spot] She is alive and will grow to be 15 feet tall. With teeth and talons that are razor sharp, with flesh twisted and warped. She will kill. She will find you."

"Robert Foxworth - Dr. Robert Verne"

"Talia Shire - Maggie Verne"

"Graham Jarvis - Victor Shusette"

"A developing fetus goes through certain distinct phases. Each phase represents a specific stage of evolution. A human fetus, for instance. At one stage, it's a fish. It looks like a fish; it's got fins and gills. At another, it's amphibian—webbed hands; at another, reptilian; at another, it's feline—developing upward in the distinct shapes and phases of the evolutionary scale. If this chemical, methylmercury, adheres to the DNA—DNA's a chromosomal fixative—it could freeze certain parts at one evolutionary stage, while the other parts continue growing. A pregnant animal ingests the fish, and it corrupts the fetus to a point where it gives birth to a monster."

"I'm gonna tell you right now!! You cut my head off before you cut these trees!!"

"The environment is us. And it's being mangled. And I'm gonna make something very clear to you. My people are violently ill. They're beginning to lose their faculties. They stagger and they fall, and this has nothing to do with alcohol, as these villagers claim. My people are fishermen; their lives are clean."

"[from the tape recorder] Described as the most potent neurotoxin of the post-World War II age. Used from 1948 to 1956 in pulping processes as a cheap and effective caustic agent that prevents algae from forming on waterlogged timber. It is also known for its mutagenic properties, concentrating in the bodies of fish and plankton-eating crustacea, affecting the fetal development of everything that ingests it. The ratio of toxin to blood level is 30% higher in the developing fetus than in the host. It was discovered, after extensive testing, that it is the only mutagen that jumps the placental barrier, concentrating in fetal blood cells, where it adheres to the DNA and corrupts the chromosomes."

"This camp is as the old people did it. I'm teaching these young people so that someone here will remember. There are underground tunnels beneath the frost line to store perishables. The forest provides more food than a man could possibly need. Here, everything grows big—real big."

"Inorganic methylmercury, known as PMT, used as a desliming agent that collects algae and prevents it from forming on preprocessed timber. Its widespread use discontinued in 1956 when evidence of its fatal effects... were seen in the deaths of 100,000 people in Minamata, Japan."

"She Lives. Don't Move. Don't Breathe. She Will Find You."

"The Monster Movie."

"It's a lifestyle. It's the beauty of love, the joy of freedom. It's the best-selling book. It's Neil Diamond. It's a motion picture."

"A film that will lift your spirits and make your heart soar."

"I am a perfect expression of freedom, here and now."

"[banishing Jonathan from the flock] Jonathan Seagull, the brotherhood is broken. Never again will you see any of your flock. Never again will you have the protection of your flock. You are henceforth and forever outcast!"

"To fly as fast as thought to anywhere that is now - you begin by knowing that you have already arrived..."

"Perfect speed isn't moving fast at all; perfect speed is being there."

"[after Jonathan revives Fletcher] I TELL YOU HE IS THE DEVIL!! HE CAN DESTROY US ALL!!! HE CAN DESTROY THE FLOCK!!!! KILL HIM!!"

"At last I can stop thinking for once in my life. Just stop thinking and fly towards the lights in the dark."

"Everyone's Book Is Now Everyone's Motion Picture."

"Listen, everybody! There's no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never have to live on garbage again!"

"I only wish to share what I've learned - the very simple fact that it is right for a gull to fly!"

"Does my life end here? I can't believe that. I wasn't born to drown in this ocean. I can die here, or I can force myself to fly. It's in me. It's... in me! I've got to try. I've got to get back home."

"You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now - and nothing can stand in your way!"

"You must think we're stupid, right? No, we're not stupid. We might be horny old pigs, but we ain't stupid."