"[Irene Gentry] "Some people are just so beautiful that life seems to speak to us through them - they're vital, radiant. It's more startling in men than women, I think, because we don't usually let ourselves think of men that way. But Shakespeare knew. Remember the sonnets? 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day,' was written to another man.""

"Larry was in his study, going through a pile of papers. Watching him, it occurred to me that I hardly knew him at all. It was as if all these years I'd been seeing him in profile and now that he turned his face to me, it was the face of a stranger."

"There had been little about our childhood that could be described as paradisiacal. Our alcoholic father was either brutal or sullenly withdrawn. Our mother retaliated with religious fanaticism. As she knelt before plaster images of saints, in the flicker of votive candles, her furious mutter was more like invective than prayer. Their manias kept my parents quite busy, and Elena and I were more or less left to raise ourselves. Elena and I were united only in our unspoken determination to show nothing of what we felt about this embarrassment of a life that our parents had visited upon us. In this we succeeded. To the outside world we were simply quiet children, good at school, not very social, a little high-strung."

"[Henry Rios, with Elena] The heat had become a bit denser and the light a little dustier as the fragrant morning waned. Birds called from the surrounding trees and the low burble of water sounded from the stream that ran through Elena's property. "This is heaven," I said, opening the car door. She smiled, deepening the lines around her mouth. "Have you ever read Primo Levi?" "No." "He has a passage in his book about concentration camp survivors―to the effect that those who have once been tortured go on being tortured. Heaven's not possible for people like that.""

"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? … It’s just not right. It’s not right. It’s not, it’s not going to change anything. We’ll, we’ll get our justice … Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we’re all stuck here for a while. Let’s try to work it out. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to beat it. Let’s try to work it out."

"It made me feel like I was back in slavery days."

"You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed."

"Michael, Michael, Motorcycle."

"Hallelujah Hollywood!"

"Give me back my old Cadillac!"

"Hop in the Cordoba, baby, we're going bowling!"

"Never teach a pig to sing."

"Get that dog off my lawn!"

"Shave my face with a rusty razor!"

"Great Balls of fire!"

"And you can spit-shine your shoes Pittsburgh, you're going dancing with the Lord of Lords, Lord Stanley!"

"The Stanley Cup has come to the city of Pittsburgh!"

"Lord Stanley, scratch their names on your fabled Cup!"

"Tell your ma, tell your pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas!"

"He's got more moves than Mae West!"

"(Insert Goaltender here) just lost his liquor license."

"(Insert Goaltender here) doesn't know whether to cry or wind his watch."

"Call Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick!"

"She wants to sell my monkey!"

"Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one, too!"

"Book 'em, Danno!"

"It's a... HOCKEY NIGHT in Pittsburgh!"

"He's smiling like a butchers dog!"

"He beat him like a rented mule."

"Get in the fast lane, Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll!"

"Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, get me the brandy!"

"Scratch my back with a hacksaw!"

"How much fried chicken can YOU eat?"

"Look out, Loretta."

"And ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!"

"And ladies and gentlemen, the kitchen is closed!"

"He smoked him like a bad cigar!"

"Donna needs a doughnut!"

"Oh no, Eddie Spaghetti!"

"Let's go hunt moose on a Harley!"

"Make me a milkshake, Malkin!"

"Slap me silly, Sidney!"

"Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen."

"The essence of democracy is that the right to make law rests in the people and flows to the government, not the other way around. Freedom resides first in the people without need of a grant from government."

"Only a weak society needs government protection or intervention before it pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication."

"The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth."

"When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves."

"Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each."

"[T]his Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."

"I knew Earl Warren very well, on a somewhat professional basis. Professional, as in I was a nine-year-old page boy and he was the Governor. We knew his children and played in the Governor's Mansion and so forth. I have a letter I've given to the Supreme Court Historical Society, in which he wrote and said, "You're going to go very far in government." I'm very proud of the fact that I knew well someone who later became the Chief Justice of the United States."