Peter Graves Quotes

Col. Tom Sturgeon Where do I get off asking the Regular Army for help with a bunch of oversize grasshoppers?

Gen. John T. Short Dr. Wainright, you're a scientist, you know what grasshoppers can do. I'm a soldier, I know what guns can do.

Dr. Ed Wainwright You can't drop an atom bomb on Chicago!

Dr. Tom Anderson He wants you on his side. Next to me, he wants you.

Dr. Paul Nelson And you want me to condone this reign of terror? To swear allegiance to this monstrous king of yours? To kill my own soul and all within reach? Well, I won't, Anderson. I'll fight it til the last breath in my body. And I'll fight you, too, because you're part of it – the worst part. Because you belong to a living race, not a dying one. This is your land, your world. Your hands are human but your mind is enemy. You're a traitor, Anderson. The greatest traitor of all time. And you know why? Because you're not betraying part of mankind – you're betraying all of it.

Dr. Paul Nelson He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself.

Ben Harper I got tired of seein children roamin the woodlands without food. Children roamin the highways in this here Depression. Children sleepin in old abandoned car bodies and junk heaps. And I promised myself I'd never see the day when my young-uns would want.

Dr. Tom Anderson Do you have any idea what you're listening to?

Dr. Paul Nelson London Philharmonic?

Dr. Tom Anderson It's Venus.

Dr. Paul Nelson Uh huh.

Dr. Tom Anderson Venus.

Dr. Paul Nelson Why not? We've bounced signals off the moon's surface. There's no reason that Venus shouldn't radiate impulses.

Dr. Tom Anderson No, I don't mean the static. Can't you hear it? The other thing?

Dr. Paul Nelson ...What other thing?

Dr. Tom Anderson Listen to it Paul! Listen to the voice!

Ben Harper The rock in the smokehouse, no, the bricks in the grape arbor, no, no, they'll dig for it. Sure. That's the place.

Peter Graves Although no one has ever been able to prove their existence, a quasi-government agency known as the Men in Black supposedly carries out secret operations here on earth in order to keep us safe from aliens throughout the galaxies. Here is one of their stories that "never happened" from one of their files that "doesn’t exist".

Frank the Pug (upon seeing Ben's skin only) Hey, J, zero percent body fat! (Homage to ].)

Worms Once you've had ], that’s what you'll yearn!

Grand Central Station Locker Creatures K is back! The light keeper! All hail K! All hail K! Oh, K, can you see by the dawn's early light...

Jeebs (head is growing back after J shot it off) Oh, great, right in the pie-hole! Now nuttin’s gonna taste right!

MIB Guard It's about time you guys got here. That pretty lady in there is causin’ all kinds-a-hell.