"[After the Secretary of Defense demands that Shane try to send more planes at the aliens' force field, which is impenetrable] I'm far more aware than you of the need to get inside, but wasting lives will not help! You want me to send up another plane? I'll do it the second you get up here and put your ass in the co-pilot's seat, SIR!"

"[The morning after Alex has broken into a convenience store to get a chicken burrito and been arrested by the police, Alex wakes up in an ice bath while his brother is yelling at him.] I've had it! Look at yourself! How is it that you screw everything up?! Oh, by the way, that girl you were trying to impress last night? Do you know who her father is? Admiral Shane! He runs the whole damn fleet! So now, you're messing with MY JOB! MY LIFE! Now I've always stayed out of your business, haven't I? 'Cause I was hoping that maybe one day, you would learn from your mistakes- you would grow up, you would mature a bit! You're 26, and what've you got? You've got, $65 to your name? A car that doesn't start, you're living on my couch... [Alex has managed to get out of the ice bath Stone threw him in while he was passed out; he is now sitting on the couch.] As of right now, as of right this second there's a new dynamic at play. And this dynamic is the following: from here on, until I state otherwise, there will be no more debate, no more discussion, no more compromise! It's me speaking, you listening! Me saying, you doing. Do you understand that? [Pauses] It's time for a new course of action. A new direction; a game change. You're joining me in the Navy."

"Brooklyn Decker - Samantha "Sam" Shane"

"Let's see if we can't buy the world one more day."

"Tadanobu Asano - Captain Nagata, JMSDF"

"Hamish Linklater - Cal Zapata"

"Jesse Plemons - Jimmy "Ordy" Ord, undesignated Seaman on the John Paul Jones."

"Joji Yoshida - Chief Engineer Hiroki"

"Liam Neeson - Admiral Terrance Shane"

"Peter MacNicol - the U.S. Secretary of Defense."

"Sir, I can't explain this. We've lost communication with everyone on the other side of the barrier. We can't get in, and they can't get out."

"John Tui - Chief Petty Officer Walter "Beast" Lynch,"

"[to Stone Hopper; angrily, but calmly] What is wrong with you? You've got skills but I have never, EVER, seen a man waste them like you. Keep the ship out of the surf and spray... [Stone: Or you will plunge to destruction. Homer, sir] The fact that you know that infuriates me beyond words. What my daughter sees in you is a great mystery to me. You're a very smart individual with very weak character, leadership and decision-making skills. Do you have anything to say to me? Anything? [Stone: Negative, sir] Enjoy these naval exercises, Hopper. They're likely to be your last. Dismissed."

"Gregory D. Gadson - retired Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales"

"We take great pride in honoring the many men and women who demonstrated exceptional gallantry in the face of overwhelming enemy force. Valor and courage were exhibited by so many... that I cannot honor them all. It is my great privilege to recognize those few whose actions deserve special note. Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, Retired- Mick Canales. [...] The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Commander Stone Hopper, for extraordinary heroism. Receiving the award on behalf of his brother- Lieutenant Commander Alex Hopper. [After receiving his brother's Navy Cross, Alex Hopper turns to leave] Stand fast, Mr. Hopper. It is my great pleasure to present you with the Silver Star, for your exceptional heroism and gallantry in combat operations. And I look forward to seeing you at sea on a ship of your own command. Soon."

"Adam Godley - Dr. Nogrady"

"Honor Thy Consumer"

"If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that."

"At this point in my life, all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts."

"Truth is singular. Its "versions" are mistruths."

"A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair."

"I believe death is only a door, when it closes, another opens. If I care to imagine heaven. I would imagine a door opening. And behind it, I would find him there, waiting for me."

"I believe there is a another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there."

"Are there no true Scotsmen in the house? Those there English gerrunts are tramplin' all over my God-given rights! They've used me and my pals most direly. And we are in need of a wee bit of assistance!"

"Sixsmith, I do hope you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me."

"Don't leave me here!"

"My dearest Sixsmith, I shot myself through the roof of my mouth this morning, with Vyvyan Ayrs' Luger. A true suicide is a paced disciplined certainty. People pontificate, 'suicide is a coward's act'. Couldn't be further from the truth. Suicide takes tremendous courage."

"Nice to know the age of chivalry isn't dead."

"If you fall I catch you."

"Don't let them say I killed myself for love. Had my infatuations, but we both know in our hearts who is the sole love of my short, bright life."

"I know. I know."

"Do you ever think that the universe is against you?"

"Question one: What secret in Sixsmith's report would be worth killing him for? Question two: Is it reasonable to believe that they would kill again to protect that secret? And if so, question three: What the fuck am I doing here?"

"Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity, and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, they can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born, and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment, at each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction."

"You have to do whatever you can't not do."

"My father braved booby-trapped marshes and the wrath of generals for his journalistic integrity. What kind of daughter would I be if I bailed when things got a little tough?"

"I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so."

"Proposition: I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet...I feel like something important has happened to me."

"I've begun to fear that I may never hold my beloved Tilda in my arms again."

"I don't know what I would have done had our paths not crossed."

"My parasite writhes at night, igniting spasms of pain, while visions and voices, obscene and monstrous, haunt me."

"There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well."

"Pain strong, aye....Friends are more strong."

"And thus it was when I made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry Goose the man I hoped might cure me of my affliction."

"The weak are meat and the strong do eat."