Barbara Judd: We are the Martians now.
Professor Bernard Quatermass: These shapes, suggests some sort of... apparatus... instruments.
Col. Breen: Your imagination is running wild.
Professor Bernard Quatermass: Isn't yours?
Col. Breen: What?
Minister of Defense: You realise what you're implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects?
Sladden: Jumping! Leaping! High up into the sky! And I knew I was one.
Professor Bernard Quatermass: The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?
Dr. Mathew Roney: Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual.
Professor Bernard Quatermass: Yes, but if we weren't men?
