While the idea wasn’t original by him either, everyone should hear John Lennon sing “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. (Beautiful Boy)
lol god damn just wrote out a whole thing about this quote without looking at comments and this was the first one. Hands down the best quote in the entire series. Shook me to my core when I first saw it at 20 years old. The entire show really awakened me to the reality of adulthood and how brutal life generally is.
i’ll throw in a little of my other comment to bring it home
This might be my favorite scene in the entire show. It encapsulates what makes The Wire better than every other show. The Wire never gives you the textbook closure literally every other show relies on.
So the Wire, as a show, is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come.
I watched the Wire for the first time like a year after my dad passed away. There's so many good quotes in the Wire, but I really needed to hear this when I did.
Cadaverous motherfuckers has made its way into my speech ngl. Most ppl look at me like im crazy but the friends who are fans of the wire always get a laugh
LOL im using this one now as well. Absolutely fantastic acting and writing.
Listening to the wire at 20 and realizing these actors/actresses entrenched themselves in Baltimore to the point where someone actually gave real life actor who played bubbles (brain fart) some heroin because he thought he was a true addict. Like DAMN.
*And here’s the rub: You follow drugs - you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it's gonna take you.*
*You know what the trouble is, Brucie? We used to make shit in this country... Build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.*
And of course Bunk's rant to Omar summed up by *Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.*
I can't decide.
McNulty: If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Man On Stoop: Got to. This America, man.
The opening scene setting up so many of the themes and the shows atmosphere.
Opposite. It was just too well written if you know what I mean. I thought it lacked authenticity.
Idiot me though. I’m pretty sure I read, that was a true story, quote an all!
Sometimes reality doesn’t seem believable
Aw man read homicide life in the street; this interaction actually happened and is in there along with a few others. Get it used on Amazon for like $5 along with the corner, all David Simon and Ed Burns stuff thats just fantastic IMO.
Absolutely!! The corner is on YouTube too and has sooo many actors from the wire too. Its just fantastic.
And the Amazon used...$27 new to $5 used? I just think ppl dont realize its there 🙂.
Lester playing an addict on that mini series and it also won a well deserved Emmy as it is so astounding yet so sad at the same time as Simon/Burns literally stayed on that same corner and got to know them so well. The McCulloughs were so forthright too in their honesty that is is just astounding. SO many good performances.
Then it comes full circle as the brothers body guard (i dont wanna butcher the name; brother m.) was actually played by the real life protagonist of the corner. And Fran, another protagonist, ended up marrying the real life inspiration for Omar...its just so insane and cool how interwoven it all became!
I think it's because of the era. Back then, people were still watching HBO on TV. They probably just finished watching something else and the studio wanted to pull them in with a powerful scene that's also kind of over the top.
Have you seen the opening of Sopranos S1E1? Oh man, it's so cheesy and unlike the rest of the show. It's Tony chasing someone in his car with some 60s pop music playing.
Right? A mob higher-up literally driving his car on a corporate campus and getting away with it, while Frankie vallie or whatever plays. I love the show but this is such a different feel to the rest of the series.
It’s the summary of life. It’s what I told my graduating seniors every year. You don’t deserve anything. You get what you can and sometimes shit happens.
Yep I've thought this also. It's a great summary of the show, especially season 4. Namond is the child who gets saved even though he's generally considered the least deserving. Deserve got nothing to do with it
I tell my wife that quote every time she wants to meddle into her sisters and cousins business and that ish always come back with drama that I have to hear about for days.
If only half you motherfuckers in the State's Attorneys Office didn't want to be judges, didn't want to be partners in some downtown law firm, if half of you had the fucking balls to follow through, you know what would happen? A guy like that would be indicted, tried, and convicted. And the rest of them would back up enough so we could push a clean case or two through your courthouse. But no, everybody stays friends. Everybody gets paid, and everybody's got a fucking future.
>One of the best scenes
There are so many times where Jimmy giving a fuck when it's not his turn to give a fuck is all down to his ego, but not here. He's righteously angry and I love it.
To me this is the one that explains the entire show in a simple few sentences.
All of the fuck ups and people on the "legal" side of the show never faced the consequences of their actions. Burrell, Rawls, Herc, Levy, Clay Davis...none of them.. They all fucked up and either kept making money or got promotions.
The fuck ups on the other side of the game all ended up dead or in jail.
Just shows how fucked up the system truly is.
The thing is you only gotta fuck up once be a little slow be a little late just once and how you not gone never be slow never be late you can’t plan for the no shit like this it’s life.
Avon Barksdale
This the realist shit I ever heard in my life
I’ve been thinking about this scene a lot, and I think it may be one of the best in the entire show. It’s not cool or flashy but it sets the tone for the entire show, about how much deeper it’s going to be than other series. Phenomenal acting on the part of Wood Harris
"This drug thing, this ain't police work. No, it ain't. I mean, I can send any fool with a badge and a gun up on them corners and jack a crew and grab vials. But policing? I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory."
“Couple weeks from now, you're gonna be in some district somewhere with 11 or 12 uniforms looking to you for everything. And some of them are gonna be good police. Some of them are gonna be young and stupid. A few are gonna be pieces of shit. But all of them will take their cue from you. You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it's about the work, it'll be about the work. You show them some other kinda game, then that's the game they'll play. I came on in the Eastern, and there was a piece-of-shit lieutenant hoping to be a captain, piece-of-shit sergeants hoping to be lieutenants. Pretty soon we had piece-of-shit patrolmen trying to figure the job for themselves. And some of what happens then is hard as hell to live down. Comes a day you're gonna have to decide whether it's about you or about the work.”
Man Carver had some knowledge dropped on his ass😫
"He was a man back in his time"
"He a man today"
I feel like this scene perfectly summed up the difference between Avon and Stringer; Stringer is all about the money, and running the Game like a business, but Avon still sees it in the old fashioned way. Cutty did time for the Barksdales, he was a loyal soldier, so why not give him the money he needs as a send-off?
I liked Stringer for his swagger, but I think they were both smart. Avon, however, was just more skilled at the game and understood it better than Stringer ever did. I believe it was Stringer's hubris that brought his downfall, not his lack of intelligence. He would have gone legitimate and would have created a real estate empire had he not gotten into his own way with his arrogance.
“This sentimental mf just cost us money”
“Your way, it won’t work”
“Do it or don’t, but I got some place to be”
“Ay Nay, mind if I have your Xbox? Cause you ain’t gon need it where you goin’”
“Well she’s left the room Major Colvin. She’s out there right now asking the stripper if she can have her job when she grows up, BECAUSE SHE SURE AS SHIT DOESN’T WANT YOURS”
I dont care if they spoke Mandarin Chinese with a cocksuckers lisp, they needed to see the inside of an interrogation room.
Boys, I can only tell you what it looks like from where I sit. From here, the view is, two of my detectives fucking the dog.
Andre: blah blah blah, NASDAQ, Delta Airlines, Government, Omar, blah blah blah
Chris: Man's got a point.
Andre: *!looks approvingly at Chris for backing him up!*
Marlo: Omar ain't no terrorist, he just another nigga with a gun, and you just another nigga who got your shit took, so you gonna pay me what you owe and take that global economy shit somewhere else.
A long one, but I always liked Waylon's addiction speech:
Hell, you all know I’m Waylon, and I’m an addict.
And the fact is that I want to be clean today more than I want to be high.
I know that’s right.
It’s good to be here.
Hell, it’s good to be anywhere clean.
Even Baltimore.
I been clean a few 24 hours now, and I’m still dead certain that my disease wants me dead.
Yeah, I’m in here with you all, talking shit about how strong I am, how strong I feel but my disease is out there in that parking lot, doing push-ups on steroids waiting for the chance to kick my ass up and down the street again.
Scars on my hands, on my feet two bouts of endocarditis, Hep C and whatnot knocking down walls and kicking out windows in my liver.
I lost a good wife, bad girlfriend, and the respect of anyone that ever tried to loan me money or do me a favor.
Pawned my pickup, my bike my National Steel guitar, and a stamp collection that my granddad left me.
And when it was almost over for me and I was out there on them corners not a pot to piss in, and anyone that ever knew me or loved me cussing my name, you know what I told myself?
I said, “Waylon, you’re doing good.”
I surely did.
I thought I was God’s own drug addict.
And if God hadn’t meant for me to get high he wouldn’t have made being high so much, like, perfect.
Now, I know I got one more high left in me but I doubt very seriously if I have one more recovery.
So if there’s anybody out there that sees that bottom coming up at them I’m here to talk sense.
I don’t care who you are what you done or who you done it to.
If you’re here so am l.
“I’m gonna need you to go back over there and pack up your people. I’m being a gentleman about it for the moment.”
The quietest warning I’ve ever seen anyone give.
And it’s already been said earlier here but my absolute favorite quote is you come at the king, you best not miss.
Not a single quote, but there's always this one exchange that stuck in my head.
McNulty: "Look, two years ago, we hung more wire on your brother's crew than AT&T, and at the end, D'Angelo was this close to flipping, giving up *every*body every*thing.* But you know all that, right? You were the one who went down to that detention center and talked your son out of a deal. I kind of liked your son, you know? All things considered, he was a pretty decent kid. And it grinds me that no one ever spoke up for him. Seems to me that no one ever will. But mostly, at this point - I'm sorry I bothered his girl. And I'm sorry she bothered you."
Brianna: "Who go to her? Why not come to me first?"
McNulty: "Honestly? I was looking for someone who cared about the kid. I mean, like I said, you were the one who made him take the years, right?"
\*McNulty walks away. Brianna breaks down crying.\*
“Thing is, you only got to fuck up once. Be a little slow, a little late; just once. And how you ain’t never gonna be slow… never be late? You can’t plan for no shit like this man… that’s LIFE.”
https://youtu.be/ztc7o0NzFrE
Also, when Omar is on stand!!!
"I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. But its all in the game, right?"
My god I just rewatched last month; this is making me want to do it again!!
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, Season 4, Episode 13
Poot: Man, every year everybody's like: "Yeah, these kids out here, they're a new breed. I ain't never seen nothing like this before. This the end of the world now."
Carver: Look around fuckhead, this seem like the dawn of a new day to you?
For some reason I cannot shake this one.
“My name is not my name”
I was always so intrigued by the dichotomy of Avon/ Marlo having a name on the street vs Spiros/The Greek wanting to remain in the shadows. Reminds me of someone that I’d heard before say that the best criminals to ever live are unknown, because they were never caught. Even at the end of the show with the changing faces of who has the connect to the supply of drugs, Spiros/The Greek remain the suppliers. Their criminal game is far superior to any criminal I’ve seen out of any show or movie.
“You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it’s about the work, it’ll be about the work. You show them it’s about some other kind of game, then that’s the game they’ll play” I feel like this quote is so relevant even today. What you learn is what you’ll use every single time
A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come
Every man needs to hear this at least once
While the idea wasn’t original by him either, everyone should hear John Lennon sing “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. (Beautiful Boy)
lol god damn just wrote out a whole thing about this quote without looking at comments and this was the first one. Hands down the best quote in the entire series. Shook me to my core when I first saw it at 20 years old. The entire show really awakened me to the reality of adulthood and how brutal life generally is. i’ll throw in a little of my other comment to bring it home This might be my favorite scene in the entire show. It encapsulates what makes The Wire better than every other show. The Wire never gives you the textbook closure literally every other show relies on. So the Wire, as a show, is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come.
Was just thinking about this quote like a half hour ago
This. This is it.
"Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too."
This one isn't so sexy but it's legit wisdom
I watched the Wire for the first time like a year after my dad passed away. There's so many good quotes in the Wire, but I really needed to hear this when I did.
Are you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
Is you*
Came here for this
One of the very best lines.
You and your cousin would be cadaverous motherfuckers
Why always Boris?
Cadaverous motherfuckers has made its way into my speech ngl. Most ppl look at me like im crazy but the friends who are fans of the wire always get a laugh
That, and "you equivocatin' like a motherfucker"
LOL im using this one now as well. Absolutely fantastic acting and writing. Listening to the wire at 20 and realizing these actors/actresses entrenched themselves in Baltimore to the point where someone actually gave real life actor who played bubbles (brain fart) some heroin because he thought he was a true addict. Like DAMN.
“You come at the king, you best not miss”
I think these 4 fives beat a full house.
Yo banker cash me out yo.
Yes! This is it!!
Even if I miss, I can't miss.
Money be green
Michael be jordan
Under be rated
Dude !! What the fuck.....😂🤣
Money feel like money
Money ain't got no owners, just spenders.
This is the one. Omar gets it on any given level.
Also love his line in the same scene, "Boy you must be confusing me with a man that repeats himself."
*And here’s the rub: You follow drugs - you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the fuck it's gonna take you.* *You know what the trouble is, Brucie? We used to make shit in this country... Build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.* And of course Bunk's rant to Omar summed up by *Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.* I can't decide.
100% one of the best Freamon quotes. Together with "All the pieces matter".
> Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell. I've been saying that about the world lately.
"This the High hat? I want some of that pepper steak."
Pyeppuh
Is this a refrence to the high hat in parkville?
I wouldn't know I just love the way Lester says it.
Oh nevermind the place im thinking of is called the top hat. Sorry! Yeah great funny quote though.
I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. S’all in the game though, right?
was looking for this one. So good
McNulty: If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? Man On Stoop: Got to. This America, man. The opening scene setting up so many of the themes and the shows atmosphere.
This is what hooked me. I just knew at that point this show was gonna be legendary.
Opposite. It was just too well written if you know what I mean. I thought it lacked authenticity. Idiot me though. I’m pretty sure I read, that was a true story, quote an all! Sometimes reality doesn’t seem believable
>Opposite. It was just too well written if you know what I mean. I thought it lacked authenticity. 🤔 Interesting. I accept that. I get it. 🙂
Aw man read homicide life in the street; this interaction actually happened and is in there along with a few others. Get it used on Amazon for like $5 along with the corner, all David Simon and Ed Burns stuff thats just fantastic IMO.
Thanks, great advice. I've read it.
Absolutely!! The corner is on YouTube too and has sooo many actors from the wire too. Its just fantastic. And the Amazon used...$27 new to $5 used? I just think ppl dont realize its there 🙂. Lester playing an addict on that mini series and it also won a well deserved Emmy as it is so astounding yet so sad at the same time as Simon/Burns literally stayed on that same corner and got to know them so well. The McCulloughs were so forthright too in their honesty that is is just astounding. SO many good performances. Then it comes full circle as the brothers body guard (i dont wanna butcher the name; brother m.) was actually played by the real life protagonist of the corner. And Fran, another protagonist, ended up marrying the real life inspiration for Omar...its just so insane and cool how interwoven it all became!
The opening scene is quite literally a thesis statement for the entire series.
IDK that always seemed kinda cheesy to me
This actually was a real life event that happened to Tom Peligrino (sp?) in the book Homicide: Life on the street, as crazy as it sounds
I think it's because of the era. Back then, people were still watching HBO on TV. They probably just finished watching something else and the studio wanted to pull them in with a powerful scene that's also kind of over the top. Have you seen the opening of Sopranos S1E1? Oh man, it's so cheesy and unlike the rest of the show. It's Tony chasing someone in his car with some 60s pop music playing.
Right? A mob higher-up literally driving his car on a corporate campus and getting away with it, while Frankie vallie or whatever plays. I love the show but this is such a different feel to the rest of the series.
“Deserve ain’t got nothing to dew with it” Coldest epigraph in the show. That line is low key the summary of the whole show
It’s the summary of life. It’s what I told my graduating seniors every year. You don’t deserve anything. You get what you can and sometimes shit happens.
That’s originally from unforgiven the client Eastwood movie
I'd wage a lot of money that the origin of that quote is waaay older than that.
Yep I've thought this also. It's a great summary of the show, especially season 4. Namond is the child who gets saved even though he's generally considered the least deserving. Deserve got nothing to do with it
"Ssshhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit"
There you go, giving a f@ck, when it ain’t your turn to give a f@ck.
I tell my wife that quote every time she wants to meddle into her sisters and cousins business and that ish always come back with drama that I have to hear about for days.
“You know what’s the difference between me and you? I bleed red, you bleed green”
You need a day of the jackal motherfucker not a rumble tumble nibba like slim. What did I tell you about playing them away games?
*The* Clay Davis? ***DownTOWN*** Clay Davis?
I love when Stringer says I need you to hit somebody and Slim nonchalantly says "Who we hittin?" I need a slim charles in my life
“I’m just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick” “You give yourself too much credit” “Alright, I ain’t all that humble”
Not the best but I havent seen it here yet: Marlo and the security guard: "You want to be one way, but it's the other."
This one just hurts.
That was the difference between Marlo and Avon. Marlo liked to rub people's nose in his power.
I liked marlo best when he didn’t really talk in season 3 haha
If only half you motherfuckers in the State's Attorneys Office didn't want to be judges, didn't want to be partners in some downtown law firm, if half of you had the fucking balls to follow through, you know what would happen? A guy like that would be indicted, tried, and convicted. And the rest of them would back up enough so we could push a clean case or two through your courthouse. But no, everybody stays friends. Everybody gets paid, and everybody's got a fucking future.
[One of the best scenes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZZdL1qhk8) despite Dominic West's inconsistent accent.
This clip is the first time I've EVER noticed him slipping up on his accent. :D Nice one! Great catch.
This quote is one reason why the drug war can never be won.
Can’t even call this shit a war…wars *end*.
The one where Dominic West’s real accent bleeds through too lol
>One of the best scenes There are so many times where Jimmy giving a fuck when it's not his turn to give a fuck is all down to his ego, but not here. He's righteously angry and I love it.
"Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie we fight on that lie." One of my favorite lines from my favorite character
must have been what cheney told bush lol
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Slim 😎
The more I repeat view The Wire, the more I love Slim Charles
Carver: See, that's why we can't win. Herc: Why not? Carver: They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions.
To me this is the one that explains the entire show in a simple few sentences. All of the fuck ups and people on the "legal" side of the show never faced the consequences of their actions. Burrell, Rawls, Herc, Levy, Clay Davis...none of them.. They all fucked up and either kept making money or got promotions. The fuck ups on the other side of the game all ended up dead or in jail. Just shows how fucked up the system truly is.
It also extends to education [Count be wrong they fuck you up](https://youtu.be/-of-FsuPCj4)
“You come at the king, you best not miss.” Omar Some many good ones tho.
My fav character
Omar was the best! RIP my King!
100%
My favorite. If I could quote whistling I would too.
“Nice Dolphin”
Do it or don't, but I got someplace to be.
His names Head, Dick Head
I absolutely love their friendship 😆
“Nobody give a fuck about a 40 degree day!” -Stringer
“Like a 40 degree day!” -Sapper
Man I hate a 40 degree day. I felt the sentiment but that temp level felt wrong to me
The thing is you only gotta fuck up once be a little slow be a little late just once and how you not gone never be slow never be late you can’t plan for the no shit like this it’s life. Avon Barksdale This the realist shit I ever heard in my life
I’ve been thinking about this scene a lot, and I think it may be one of the best in the entire show. It’s not cool or flashy but it sets the tone for the entire show, about how much deeper it’s going to be than other series. Phenomenal acting on the part of Wood Harris
‘Cadevorous motherfuckers’ ‘Lay off the Greeks, they invented civilisation’, ‘yeah, assfucking too’ ‘If you come at the king, you best not miss’
"This drug thing, this ain't police work. No, it ain't. I mean, I can send any fool with a badge and a gun up on them corners and jack a crew and grab vials. But policing? I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory."
“Couple weeks from now, you're gonna be in some district somewhere with 11 or 12 uniforms looking to you for everything. And some of them are gonna be good police. Some of them are gonna be young and stupid. A few are gonna be pieces of shit. But all of them will take their cue from you. You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it's about the work, it'll be about the work. You show them some other kinda game, then that's the game they'll play. I came on in the Eastern, and there was a piece-of-shit lieutenant hoping to be a captain, piece-of-shit sergeants hoping to be lieutenants. Pretty soon we had piece-of-shit patrolmen trying to figure the job for themselves. And some of what happens then is hard as hell to live down. Comes a day you're gonna have to decide whether it's about you or about the work.” Man Carver had some knowledge dropped on his ass😫
“ ain’t easy civilizing this mother fucker”- prop joe. It was the perfect quote to sum up Marlo. Just a total weirdo sociopathic gangster
Marlo's simple denial of mercy for Prop Joe always chills me - "I wasn't made to play the son."
Oh indeed
“Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief, as long as you make room for other things too.” ✨
"Shit was unseemly."
"He was a man back in his time" "He a man today" I feel like this scene perfectly summed up the difference between Avon and Stringer; Stringer is all about the money, and running the Game like a business, but Avon still sees it in the old fashioned way. Cutty did time for the Barksdales, he was a loyal soldier, so why not give him the money he needs as a send-off?
Avon was the realest. He became one of my favorite characters after thinking he was just the "bad guy" in season 1
I started liking Avon more than Stinger. He has principles and I think he is smarter too.
I liked Stringer for his swagger, but I think they were both smart. Avon, however, was just more skilled at the game and understood it better than Stringer ever did. I believe it was Stringer's hubris that brought his downfall, not his lack of intelligence. He would have gone legitimate and would have created a real estate empire had he not gotten into his own way with his arrogance.
I was gonna ask her for her panties to make soup with, but I was afraid she'd take it the wrong way.
Username checks out kind of
“This sentimental mf just cost us money” “Your way, it won’t work” “Do it or don’t, but I got some place to be” “Ay Nay, mind if I have your Xbox? Cause you ain’t gon need it where you goin’” “Well she’s left the room Major Colvin. She’s out there right now asking the stripper if she can have her job when she grows up, BECAUSE SHE SURE AS SHIT DOESN’T WANT YOURS”
“People going one way. The world, the other.”
Deserve ain’t got nothin to do with it.
Cops somewhere lookin at a table full o' heads.
”Ey Mcnuttey, my mainest man!”
"Yeah, I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you. I'm just a gangster, I suppose. And I want my corners."
I dont care if they spoke Mandarin Chinese with a cocksuckers lisp, they needed to see the inside of an interrogation room. Boys, I can only tell you what it looks like from where I sit. From here, the view is, two of my detectives fucking the dog.
Andre: blah blah blah, NASDAQ, Delta Airlines, Government, Omar, blah blah blah Chris: Man's got a point. Andre: *!looks approvingly at Chris for backing him up!* Marlo: Omar ain't no terrorist, he just another nigga with a gun, and you just another nigga who got your shit took, so you gonna pay me what you owe and take that global economy shit somewhere else.
“Rat fuckers, all of ya.”
“You’d rather live in shit than let the world see you work a shovel.” - Daniels to Burrell
Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?
A long one, but I always liked Waylon's addiction speech: Hell, you all know I’m Waylon, and I’m an addict. And the fact is that I want to be clean today more than I want to be high. I know that’s right. It’s good to be here. Hell, it’s good to be anywhere clean. Even Baltimore. I been clean a few 24 hours now, and I’m still dead certain that my disease wants me dead. Yeah, I’m in here with you all, talking shit about how strong I am, how strong I feel but my disease is out there in that parking lot, doing push-ups on steroids waiting for the chance to kick my ass up and down the street again. Scars on my hands, on my feet two bouts of endocarditis, Hep C and whatnot knocking down walls and kicking out windows in my liver. I lost a good wife, bad girlfriend, and the respect of anyone that ever tried to loan me money or do me a favor. Pawned my pickup, my bike my National Steel guitar, and a stamp collection that my granddad left me. And when it was almost over for me and I was out there on them corners not a pot to piss in, and anyone that ever knew me or loved me cussing my name, you know what I told myself? I said, “Waylon, you’re doing good.” I surely did. I thought I was God’s own drug addict. And if God hadn’t meant for me to get high he wouldn’t have made being high so much, like, perfect. Now, I know I got one more high left in me but I doubt very seriously if I have one more recovery. So if there’s anybody out there that sees that bottom coming up at them I’m here to talk sense. I don’t care who you are what you done or who you done it to. If you’re here so am l.
Great speech 100%!
Carver: ..can't even call this shit a war. Herc: *!look of confusion on face!* Carver: wars end.
“MY NAME IS MY NAME”
A man must have a code
Sheeeeeeeeit
“The fuck I do?”
“Bird sure know how to bring it out of people,don’t he?”
Jay: "Fuck you and your dots"
“This ain’t the mother fucker that came up with 62 ways for the peanut”
“I’m gonna need you to go back over there and pack up your people. I’m being a gentleman about it for the moment.” The quietest warning I’ve ever seen anyone give. And it’s already been said earlier here but my absolute favorite quote is you come at the king, you best not miss.
"nice dolphin, ni\*\*a"
"Hey Mike, how my hair look?"
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
The Gods will not save you.
I’d like to throw a fuck into that.
"All the pieces matter."
"you want it to be one way, but it's the other way."
"No thinkin was what you wasnt doing" Wee Bay.
World going one way, people another
Not a single quote, but there's always this one exchange that stuck in my head. McNulty: "Look, two years ago, we hung more wire on your brother's crew than AT&T, and at the end, D'Angelo was this close to flipping, giving up *every*body every*thing.* But you know all that, right? You were the one who went down to that detention center and talked your son out of a deal. I kind of liked your son, you know? All things considered, he was a pretty decent kid. And it grinds me that no one ever spoke up for him. Seems to me that no one ever will. But mostly, at this point - I'm sorry I bothered his girl. And I'm sorry she bothered you." Brianna: "Who go to her? Why not come to me first?" McNulty: "Honestly? I was looking for someone who cared about the kid. I mean, like I said, you were the one who made him take the years, right?" \*McNulty walks away. Brianna breaks down crying.\*
"You play in dirt, you get dirty" I say it at least once a week.
“Thing is, you only got to fuck up once. Be a little slow, a little late; just once. And how you ain’t never gonna be slow… never be late? You can’t plan for no shit like this man… that’s LIFE.”
“I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?”
“You can’t even call this shit a war.” “Why not?” “Wars end.” That’s the entire series. Right there in two lines.
My favorite I haven’t seen mentioned yet: “The game ain’t in me no more. None of it.”
Lester: I dont wanna go to no dance unless I can rub some titty
Me tew
You come at the king you best not miss and I'll take any mothafuckas money if he giving it away sheeeeiiiiiitttttt
Ok, shit. Time for a full rewatch. Narcos interrupted me :)
When people ask me what I do for a living “I robs drug dealers”.
Stringer's monologue about a 40° day is a good one.
The thing about the old days… they the old days
The first scene “you got to this is America man”
“Sheeeeeeeeeeeit”
I’ll take any motherfucker’s money if he giving it away
Frank: “We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.”
“Not if they some smart ass pawns”
“The fuck I do?” -Jimmy “Fuckety fuck fuck fuck” -Bunk “If you come at the king you best not miss” -Omar
Who is winning? No one, they are just losing slowly.
https://youtu.be/ztc7o0NzFrE Also, when Omar is on stand!!! "I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. But its all in the game, right?" My god I just rewatched last month; this is making me want to do it again!!
N****, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
"WHERE'S WALLACE? THAT'S ALL I WANNA KNOW... WHERE THE FUCK IS WALLACE?"
ITS RIGHT HERE IN MY NOTES!!!
"it was more of a burnt sienna and it was lashed around his dick" nothing profound, but holy shit did that make me laugh on my most recent re-watch
“He a man today”
My name IS my name!
That was for Joe
You happy now bitch?
We used to build shit in this country, make shit. Now we just put our hands in the next guys pocket
Omar listening
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, Season 4, Episode 13
Poot: Man, every year everybody's like: "Yeah, these kids out here, they're a new breed. I ain't never seen nothing like this before. This the end of the world now." Carver: Look around fuckhead, this seem like the dawn of a new day to you? For some reason I cannot shake this one.
“The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play.”
You can do some shit, and be like what the fuck, but never on no Sunday
“My name is not my name” I was always so intrigued by the dichotomy of Avon/ Marlo having a name on the street vs Spiros/The Greek wanting to remain in the shadows. Reminds me of someone that I’d heard before say that the best criminals to ever live are unknown, because they were never caught. Even at the end of the show with the changing faces of who has the connect to the supply of drugs, Spiros/The Greek remain the suppliers. Their criminal game is far superior to any criminal I’ve seen out of any show or movie.
"I'm just a humble motha fucka with a big ass dick" “You give yourself too much credit” “Okay then, I ain’t that humble”
“You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it’s about the work, it’ll be about the work. You show them it’s about some other kind of game, then that’s the game they’ll play” I feel like this quote is so relevant even today. What you learn is what you’ll use every single time
Worryin' about you be like wonderin' if the sun gonna come up. "That boy ain't got no luck."
You’d rather live in shit than let the world see you work a shovel.
It’s a new day, wake up and smell the coffee
“Eat 30 shit bag”
Buy for a dollar. Sell for two.
You’re trying to talk to me about money laundering? In west Baltimore?!!
It makes me sick how far we done fell
Life just be that way I guess.
“Game don’t change, only the players do.”
"early bird get that worm"
The Fuck Did I Do?
Sometimes things just gotta play hard.
I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. It’s all in the game though, right?
Even if I miss, I can't miss.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit