"Our turnin' back don't mean nothin', not in the long run. She's alive, she's safe for a while. They'll keep her and raise her as one of their own til, until she's of an age to... Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then, he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as a turnin' of the earth."

"If you scratch the surface of any woman, she'll like it!"

"You'll never find peace by hating, lad! It only shuts ye off more from the world! And this town is only a cursed place, if ye make it so! To the rest of us, 'tis a blessed place!""

"I told you if you love someone deeply enough anything is possible. Even... miracles."

"It's the hardest thing in the world to give everything. Though it's usually the only way to get everything."

"You're confused, aren't you, boy? If you believed as much as you thought you believed, you wouldn't be confused."

"I was grounded while you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth you cut through lies I saw the lone empty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon!"

"Does anyone ever get two chances? Is the Door in the Wall always gone when next you look? Where do you catch the boat for Brigadoon?"

"There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiancee's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out."

"If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege."

"Well, most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. They're NOT as good as everybody else!"

"Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean?"

"Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable!"

"There was nothing to hold onto — except each other."

"YOU'RE NEXT!"

"They come from another world!"

"[describing a body he found] It's like the first impression that's stamped on a coin. It isn't finished."

"The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it will ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe. Everything except itself."

"They're like huge seed pods!"

"You know her uncle, Uncle Ira?...Well Miles, she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle. She thinks he's an imposter or something."

"Doctor, will you tell these fools? I'm not crazy. Make them listen to me before it's too late."

"Don't just sit there measuring me for a straightjacket, do something! Call for help! Oh, what's the use?!"

"Look, you fools, you're in danger! Can't you see?! They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives, our children, everyone! THEY'RE HERE, ALREADY! YOU'RE NEXT!"

"Help! Wait! Stop! Stop and listen to me!... These people who're coming after me are not human!"

"I've been afraid a lot of times in my life. But I didn't know the real meaning of fear until... until I had kissed Becky. A moment's sleep, and the girl I loved was an inhuman enemy bent on my destruction. That moment's sleep was death to Becky's soul, just as it had been for Jack and Teddy and Dan Kauffman and all the rest. Their bodies were now hosts harboring an alien form of life; a cosmic form, which to survive must take over every human man! So I ran! I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi had run the other day. My only hope was to get away from Santa Mira, to get to the highway, to warn the others of what was happening!"

"Keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement."

"In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind... All of us — a little bit — we harden our hearts, grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear."

"[voiceover] Driving home, I had a lot of questions and no answers. How could Jimmy and Wilma seem so normal now? Surely I had done nothing to cure them. Maybe they wanted me to feel secure, but why?"

"[voiceover] Sick people who couldn't wait to see me, then suddenly were perfectly all right. A boy who said his mother wasn't his mother. A woman who said her uncle wasn't her uncle."

"[voiceover] It started — for me, it started — last Thursday, in response to an urgent message from my nurse, I hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town."

"[discovering that Becky is also divorced] Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now...except that I'm paying dues while you collect them."

"Kenneth Patterson - Stanley Driscoll"

"Tom Fadden - Uncle Ira Lentz"

"Virginia Christine - Wilma Lentz"

"Ralph Dumke - Police Chief Nick Grivett"

"Jean Willes - Nurse Sally Withers"

"Carolyn Jones - Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec"

"King Donovan - Jack Belicec"

"Larry Gates - Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman"

"Dana Wynter - Becky Driscoll"

"Kevin McCarthy - Dr. Miles J. Bennell"

"[to Johnny Friendly] You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!"

"Pat Hingle - Bartender (uncredited)"

"Martin Balsam - Gillette (uncredited)"

"Fred Gwynne - Slim (uncredited)"

"Ben Wager - Joey Doyle"

"Pat Henning - Timothy J. "Kayo" Dugan"