The Wire quotes
257 total quotesMichael: Thought maybe I could get with Chris... I--I've got a problem I can't bring to no one else.
Michael: Why? What I do wrong?
Snoop: Chris locked up behind somethin' he done for you. And you downtown wit' the police.
Michael: I ain't say a word.
Snoop: Yeah, that's what you say. But it's how you carry yourself. Always apart. Always aksin', "Why?". When you should be doin' what you're told. You was never one of us. And you never could be [...] How my hair look, Mike?
Michael: You look good girl. [gunshot]
Snoop: Chris locked up behind somethin' he done for you. And you downtown wit' the police.
Michael: I ain't say a word.
Snoop: Yeah, that's what you say. But it's how you carry yourself. Always apart. Always aksin', "Why?". When you should be doin' what you're told. You was never one of us. And you never could be [...] How my hair look, Mike?
Michael: You look good girl. [gunshot]
Namond: Bunny?
Colvin: Only my friends call me Bunny.
Namond: Yeah, but why?
Colvin: You don't need to know. And if you tell anybody, I'll cut your balls off.
Colvin: Only my friends call me Bunny.
Namond: Yeah, but why?
Colvin: You don't need to know. And if you tell anybody, I'll cut your balls off.
Norman: A wise man does not burn his bridges until he first knows he can part the waters.
Norman: Daniels isn't ready. He's only been colonel for a year.
Carcetti: A year will do in a pinch. You float it with one of your bunkies on Calvert Street. See how it plays.
Norman: Burrell reads that, he'll shit melons.
Carcetti: I fucking hope so. It's Baltimore. No one lives forever.
Carcetti: A year will do in a pinch. You float it with one of your bunkies on Calvert Street. See how it plays.
Norman: Burrell reads that, he'll shit melons.
Carcetti: I fucking hope so. It's Baltimore. No one lives forever.
Norman: Did you hear that naked ass appeal to racial solidarity? I'd like to kick his pale entitled ass.
Norman: I wished I was still at the newspaper so I could write on this mess. It's too fucking good.
Norris: You know what we use the polygraph for? Leverage. To get them in here and fuck with them.
Kima: No wonder this shit's inadmissible.
Kima: No wonder this shit's inadmissible.
Omar Little: [as he is leaving prison] You my ride?
Bunk: I'm your mother fucking savior is what I am.
Bunk: I'm your mother fucking savior is what I am.
Omar: [in a lockup room] Come on now, when have you ever known me to out my gun on someone thats not in the game?
Bunk: [laughing] Omar...
Bunk: [laughing] Omar...