List of Every Opening Line From "The Wire" - Seasons 1 Through 4
I can not take credit for this, but I was searching the interwebs for the list and found it posted on a Wire discussion thread. Full credit must be given to user of laylagalise who posted this in this thread over at TV Without Pity. Much respect.
"When it's not your turn." - McNulty
“You cannot lose if you do not play." - Marla Daniels
"The King stays the King." - D'Angelo
"It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here." - Bubbles
“... a little slow, a little late." - Avon Barksdale
"... and all the pieces matter" - Freamon
"A man must have a code." - Bunk
"Come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar
"Maybe we won." - Herc
"And then he dropped the bracelets..." - Greggs
"Dope on the damn table." - Daniel
"This is me, yo, right here." - Wallace
"All in the game." - Traditional West Baltimore
"They used to make steel there, no?" - Vondas
"They can chew you up but they gotta spit you back out." - McNulty
"What they need is a union." - Russell
"If I hear music, I'm gonna dance." - Greggs
"They used to make steel there, no?" - Vondas
"It don't matter that some fool say he different..." - D'Angelo
"Don't worry kid, y'er still on the clock." - Horseface
“How come they don't fly away?" - Ziggy
"The world is a smaller place now." - The Greek
"It pays to go with the union card everytime." - Ziggy
"I need to get clean." - Sobotka
"Business. Always business." - The Greek
"Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." - Bodie
"There's never been a paper bag." - Colvin
"The gods will not save you." - Burrell
"Why you got to go and fuck with the program?" - Fruit
"I had such fuckin' hopes for us." - McNulty
"Just a gangster, I suppose." - Avon Barksdale
"Conscience do cost." - Butchie
"Pretty don't even come close to the problem." - The Deacon
“...while you're waiting for moments that never come." - Freamon
"Call it a crisis of leadership." - Proposition Joe
"We don't need to dream no more." - Stringer Bell
"...we fight on the lie." - Slim Charles
"Lambs to the slaughter here." - Marcia Donnelly
"I still wake up white in a city that ain't." - Carcetti
"Love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit." -- Namond Brice
“No one wins. One side just loses more slowly." -- Prez
"If you with us, you with us." - Chris Partlow
"Don't try this s**t at home." - Norman Wilson
"Aw yeah. That golden rule." - The Bunk
"We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing." -Zenobia
"Might as well dump 'em, get another." - Proposition Joe
"The world goin' one way, people another." - Poot
"You play in dirt, you get dirty." --McNulty
"That all there is to it?" -- Bubbles
"If animal trapped call 410-844-6286" -- Baltimore, traditional
