- Barney Sloan: Sometimes when you're on the outside looking in you see some things other people can't.
- Laurie Tuttle: When you consider that you get older every single day when you wake up, it can tempt one to rush into decisions a little!
- Barney Sloan: You know what a glove man is? I'm a glove man. You shag flies in the hot sun all your life, but you never go to bat. Like right off, they said - no parents, make him an orphan - he'll be alright. Education? Grammer school's enough; send him off to work. So I cooperate, & then they come up with a nice big Depression.
- Barney Sloan: What good's a hit song?
- Laurie Tuttle: Here we go again.
- Barney Sloan: Eh, your picture in life, and maybe get a new suit; a lot of hullabaloo. And one day I'm walkin' down the street and around the corner comes a bolt of lightning. POW! D-E-D. Dead.
- Barney Sloan: Bustin' things up, thats my speed, but one thing's a saving grace: I always end up at the bottom of the pile.
- Barney Sloan: It's homes like these that are the backbone of the nation. Where's the spinning wheel?
- Alex Burke: How about the big build up you were gonna give me?
- Gregory Tuttle: I changed my mind.
- Alex Burke: Oh, aren't you gonna mention my talent? We talked about it all the way home, remember?
- Gregory Tuttle: All they have to do is look at you to know you have no talent.