- Dr. Carrington: This Thing is older, and wiser, than any Thing on Earth! I want to take it out to brunch, to discuss Nietzche, and Schopenhauer, and the Unified Field Theory!
- Dr. Nikki Carlton: I'm Dr. Carlton. You're the foreman, Mr. Gorman?
- Foreman Gorman: Call me Norman. I don't get it. I've got a good crew. They was performin'.
- Dr. Nikki Carlton: What about the three you fired?
- Foreman Gorman: Jack, Doc, and Reggie. Jack worked on the docks. Doc was our medic, a former Army medical corpsman. Reggie, he was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Three real straight arrows.
- Dr. Nikki Carlton: So you had a Corpsman, a Mormon, and a longshoreman, right, Mr. Gorman?
- Foreman Gorman: Call me Norman.
- Col. Patrick Hendry: Look, son, I've been fighting monsters since before you were born. It's never over 'til the final fade-out.
- Col. Patrick Hendry: You try telling some Harvard psychiatrist you used to fight monsters. I've looked at so many inkblots, my eyes cross. They've had me doing the Thorazine shuffle for three years.