Steve McGarrett quotes from Hawaii Five-O (1968)

McGarrett

The new treatments are even more fascinating than the diseases.

Man, you fracture me with that treatment stuff.

McGarrett

What size shoe do you wear?

I got teeny little feet. Size 13.

Danno

You're always one step ahead.

McGarrett

That's why I got the big office, Danno.

Danno

Peace and joy, strong brother.

McGarrett

Peace.

How do you live with it?

McGarrett

You don't. You start from right now wiser. You live for today and for what comes next. You bury the dead and you move on.

McGarrett

Okay, what else?

Charlie

The homosexuals. These old smart ones. They don't do anything to keep 'em away from these young kids that are just coming in for their first stretch.

Charlie

Yeah, but first I gotta do 20 years in the new prison. I'm a real winner.

McGarrett

Who told you to be a thief, Charlie?

Charlie

It's all the fault of my environment.

Danno

It's probably a crackpot, Steve.

McGarrett

Unfortunately crackpots kill, Danno.

McGarrett

Was she assaulted?

Just murdered.

McGarrett

Just, huh?

Charlie

Sounds like a psychotic, a crazy killer.

McGarrett

All killers are psychotic.

McGarrett

Morgan said he was with a blonde playing gin when Joey was hit.

Danno

He was with a blonde alright. Couldn't swear to what they were playing.

That rock you a little, McGarrett. Joey and I planning to get married?

McGarrett

Nothing rocks me anymore, honey.

McGarrett

Chin, you're gonna make a speech tomorrow.

Chin

Me? What do I talk about?

McGarrett

Law and order.

Chin

For or against?

I was born of woman. A stupid, superstitious, and salacious old witch, my mother. From the hills of Tennessee. Where I was born and raised. Hallelujah! [pause] Fascinating? Hmm?

McGarrett

Like watching an auto wreck.

You're sweet.

McGarrett

I try.

Have you ever thought that sometimes this world can be harder on a woman than a man?

McGarrett

[undercover as Harry Brown] Yeah. Yeah, sometimes.

Underneath what we grow up to be, I suppose there's just a little girl in all of us looking out, wondering why people turn into such frightening misshapen monsters. And then one day, you look and you're one of those people. You're one of those frightening misshapen monsters. Crowding, destroying, doing anything to stay alive.