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David Simon Quotes

Total quotes: 48
“If the Gods are fucking you, you find a way to fuck them back.”
— Ervin Burrell, The Wire, Season 3: Time After Time
Tagged: Revenge, Revenge Fuck, gods
“This motherfucker pays you to watch movies with him. What movie was it?”
— Larry, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: Motherfucker
“Vincent: We open in three hours. If you want, you can be here with us to christen the joint.

Abby: Thanks anyhow.

Vincent: Hey, it will be good for your memoirs.”
— Vincent, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: Christening, Memoir
“Vincent: You mind if I ask you something?

Paul: Sure.

Vincent: What's with this place? It's deader than Bobby Kennedy?”
— Vincent, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: dead, Bobby Kennedy
“Vincent: Look, Frankie, as fucked up as you are, in every possible way a man can be, you've always been the one. Major league prospects, prettiest women, flashiest cars.

Frankie: What can I say?”
— Vincent, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: fucked up
“[Looking at C.C.'s body after Bobby and Frankie have just killed him] Damn! Y'all murdered the shit out of that motherfucker!”
— Black Frankie, The Deuce, Season 2: Nobody Has to Get Hurt
Tagged: Murder, Shit, Motherfucker
“You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right? Nigga with a library card.”
— Brother Mouzone, The Wire, Season 2: Storm Warnings
Tagged: dangerous, America, Educated Black Man, Nigga
“ Middle management means that you got just enough responsibility to listen when people talk, but not so much you can't tell anybody to go fuck themselves.”
— Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin, The Wire, Season 3: Straight and True
Tagged: Middle Management, Responsibility, Go Fuck Yourself
“Rudy: It's a go.

Tommy: I don't know. Seems kinda crazy.

Rudy: The fuck you expect from a guy gets blown by his niece?”
— Rudy, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: Incest, Fuck, blowjob
“You, uh, you ever been to France? [Lori shakes her head no] Yeah, me neither.”
— C.C., The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: France
“You know, I had a college girl once. She was educated, but not intelligent.”
— C.C., The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: College Girls
“Larry: Why'd he pay you double last time?

Darlene: Because we watched a whole movie last time, too, and I told him I'd probably be in trouble then, too, if I didn't show you more for it.”
— Larry, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: prostitution
“Lori: Can I get a match, girl?

Ashley: I'm not your girl, bitch.

Lori: Is that a no?”
— Lori, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: Bitch, Match
“Harvey Wasserman: [Watching Eileen's movie footage] Why is he kissing her?

Eileen 'Candy' Merrell: They're making love, Harvey.

Harvey Wasserman: That's disgusting!”
— George Pelecanos, David Simon, The Deuce, Season 3: The Camera Loves You
Tagged: Kissing, Making Love, disgusting
“[referring to McNulty and Bunk] Look at 'em, Cole. Don't it make your dick bust concrete to be in the same room with two noble, selfless public servants?”
— Jimmy McNulty,
Tagged: Public Servants, Dick Busting
“From everything we've given you, fire should be shootin' outta your ass. But there you sit, like a genital wart.”
— Jay Landsman, The Wire, Season 5: Late Editions
Tagged: Genital Wart, ass
“Shame is some tricky shit, ain't it? Makes you feel like you want to change, and then beats you back down when you think you can't.”
— Walon, The Wire, Season 4: Final Grades
Tagged: Shame
“You've lost your fucking mind, Jimmy. Look at you. Half-lit every third night, dead drunk every second. Nut deep in random pussy. What little time you are sober and limp-dicked, you're working murders that don't even exist!”
— David Mills, David Simon, The Wire, Season 5: React Quotes
Tagged: Losing Your Mind, Pussy, Limp-Dicked, murders
“Frankie, you should have been there! Rudy shoved it so far up their Irish cunts you would have...what? Who died?”
— Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: cunts, irish
“Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Snot Boogie's Friend: Got to. It's America, man”
— Jimmy McNulty,
“Kima: Fighting the war on drugs...one brutality case at a time.

Carver: Girl, you can't even think of calling this shit a war.

Herc: Why not?

Carver: Wars end.”
— Ellis Carver,
Tagged: War, War on Drugs
“You come at the king, you best not miss.”
— Omar Little, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: Lessons
Tagged: Threats
“The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. Like at the end of the book, ya know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say you're somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story.”
— D'Angelo Barksdale, The Wire, Season 2: All Prologue
Tagged: Past, Karma, New Beginnings, Change
“Lambs go to slaughter. A man, he learns when to walk away.”
— The Greek, The Wire, Season 2: Port in a Storm
Tagged: Lambs, Slaughter, walk away
“Snot Boogie. [man shrugs] This kid, whose mamma went to the trouble of christening him Omar Isaiah Betts. You know, he forgets his jacket, so his nose starts running, and some asshole, instead of getting him a Kleenex, he calls him Snot. So he's Snot forever. Doesn't seem fair.”
— Jimmy McNulty,
Tagged: Snot Boogie, Nicknames, Stigma
“Fuck 'right.' It ain't about right, it's about money. Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down in that basement and say, 'Hey, Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. We sellin' chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you'?”
— D'Angelo Barksdale, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: The Detail
Tagged: Ronald McDonald, Right And Wrong, Money
“You're just a weak-ass mayor of a broke-ass city.”
— Norman Wilson, The Wire, Season 5: More With Less
Tagged: Weak-Ass, Broke-Ass, insults
“Duck Salad, no thank you!”
— Chris Alston, The Deuce, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Duck Salad
“He got my blood on his shoes, I know that much.”
— Vincent Martino, The Deuce, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Beat Up, Blood, you should see the other guy
“We're Americans, you fascist son of a bitch!”
— Herman Levin, The Plot Against America, Miniseries: Part 1
Tagged: angry, Americans, upset
“Shit. I can act in a real movie with a story and everything.”
— Lori, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: Shit, Acting
“I don't wanna go to no dance unless I can rub some tit.”
— Det. Lester Freamon, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: The Pager
Tagged: Dancing, Tits
“What's the worst thing on a woman? A drunken Irishman.”
— Rhonda Pearlman, The Wire, Season 2: Collateral Damage
Tagged: Woman, Drunken Irishman, Anti-Irish Stereotypes
“[cornering a drug dealer] The cheese stands alone.”
— Omar Little, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: The Pager
Tagged: Threats, Cheese
“They can chew you up, but then they gotta spit you out.”
— Jimmy McNulty, The Wire, Season 2: Collateral Damage
Tagged: Chew, Spit, Karma
“Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 'Cause it ain't about that paper. It's about me hurtin' his people and messin' with his world. Tell that boy he ain't man enough to come down to the street with Omar. You tell him that!”
— Omar Little, The Wire, Season 5: The Dickensian Aspect
Tagged: Threats
“There you go. Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.”
— Bunk Moreland,
“The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play.”
— Marla Daniels, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: The Detail
Tagged: Winning, Losing, Playing
“All in the game yo, all in the game.”
— Omar Devone Little, The Wire
Tagged: The Wire, Omar
“Either sign yourself into medical or go up on that roof wet”
— Cedric Daniels, The Wire
Tagged: The Wire
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