- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: He's a cold motherfucker.
- Malik 'Poot' Carr: It's a cold world, Bodie.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Thought you said it was getting warmer, man.
- Malik 'Poot' Carr: World going one way, people another.
- Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: [to a patrolman who has given someone a ticket at the urging for more arrests] Baker, Let me let you in on a little secret, The patrolling officer on his beat is the one true dictatorship in America, we can lock a guy up on the humble, lock him up for real, or say fuck it and drink ourselves to death under the expressway and our side partners will cover us, No one - I mean no one - tells us how to waste our shift!
- Sgt. Ellis Carver: The young man seems to think highly of you boss. He invoked your name with a measure of respect.
- Maj. Howard 'Bunny' Colvin: It wasn't but a few weeks ago when I was in a room with him being called everything but a child of God. "Mr Colvin sir, fuck you."
- Namond Brice: Yo at least I said mister.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: [about Marlo] He's a cold motherfucker.
- Malik 'Poot' Carr: It's a cold world Bodie.
- Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Thought you said it was getting warmer.
- Malik 'Poot' Carr: The world going one way, people another yo.