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Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005), originally simply titled Enterprise, is a science-fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. It follows the adventures of the crew of the pre-Federation Enterprise (NX-01), the first human-built vessel to achieve Warp 5.

Enterprise was a prequel to the other Star Trek series and movies. (The pilot episode, "Broken Bow", took place in 2151, ten years before the founding of the Federation and about halfway between the events shown in the movie Star Trek: First Contact and the original Star Trek series.)

Broken Bow, Part I [1.1]

 * [observing an unconscious Klingon pilot.]
 * Admiral Leonard: He's a Kling-ot.
 * Tos: A Kling-on.
 * Archer: Where'd he come from?
 * Commander Williams: Oklahoma.

 * [The Enterprise is formally commissioned]
 * Admiral Forrest: When Zefram Cochrane made his legendary warp flight 90 years ago and attracted the attention of our new friends the Vulcans, we realized that we weren't alone in the galaxy. Today, we are about to cross a new threshold. for nearly a century we waded ankle-deep in the ocean of space. Now it's finally time to swim. [audience applauds] The Warp-Five engine wouldn't have been a reality without men like Dr. Cochrane and Henry Archer,who worked so hard to develop it, so it's only fitting that Archer's son Jonathan Archer, will command the first starship powered by this engine. [gestures to Archer and nods to him on heading to the vessel to assume command] Rather than quoting Dr. Cochrane I think we should listen to his own words, from the dedication ceremony for the Warp-Five complex, 32 years ago. [screen opens up]
 * Dr. Zephram Cochrane: On this site, a powerful engine will be built - an engine that will someday help us to travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it: thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips. And we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds, and seek out new life, and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly, where no man has gone before.

Broken Bow, Part II [1.2]

 * [referring to the new phase pistol.]
 * Reed: There are two settings : stun and kill. It would be best not to confuse them.

 * T'Pol: You both could be killed.
 * Archer: Am I sensing concern? Last I checked that's considered a emotion.
 * T'Pol: If anything happens to you, the Vulcan High Command will hold me responsible.

Fight or Flight [1.3]

 * Archer: Captains starlog, May 6, 2151. After helping them recover their dead crewmen, we had the chance to spend some time with the Axanar. Turns out, they're androgynous and live over 400 years. I look forward to meeting them again, under better circumstances. Before we resume our course, I have agreed to make a brief detour.

 * Phlox: And crewmen Bennett and Tainum over there, do you see them? If I'm not mistaken, they are preparing to mate. Do you think they might let me watch?
 * Trip: It's good to see you're enjoying yourself.

Strange New World [1.4]

 * Trip: Where did you put the phase pistols?
 * Travis: You're going to shoot a bug?
 * Trip: I'm just going to stun it.

Unexpected [1.5]

 * Phlox: Tell me, did your visit to the Xyrillian ship involve any... uh... romance?
 * Trip: What?
 * Phlox: Were you intimate with anyone?
 * Trip: Doc, I was over there to repair a warp reactor. What are you talking about?
 * Phlox: Seems you did a little more than repair work.
 * Trip: Meaning?
 * Phlox: This is a nipple.
 * Trip: I beg your pardon?
 * Phlox: Ah, ah, the blastocyst is located between the sixth and seventh intercostals.
 * Trip: What the hell are you talking about?
 * Phlox: I'm not quite sure congratulations are in order, Commander, but you're pregnant.

Terra Nova [1.6]

 * T'Pol: My experience with Humans is limited, but I've come to learn that they are quite resourceful.

The Andorian Incident [1.7]

 * Trip: [to T'Pol, regarding Enterprise not being welcome at P'Jem] It's because Vulcans think we smell bad, isn't it?

 * Shran: [to Archer] We're in your debt.

Breaking the Ice [1.8]

 * [on learning that Tucker has mistakenly decoded one of her private messages.]
 * T'Pol: You read my letter?
 * Trip: Believe me, I don't feel very good about it.

Civilization [1.9]

 * Archer: Starfleet could've sent a probe out here to make maps and take pictures, but they didn't. They sent us so that we could explore with our own senses.

Fortunate Son [1.10]

 * [discussing about Travis parent's cargo ship.]
 * T'Pol: The Earth cargo ship Fortunate . Y-class freighter. Maximum speed: warp one point eight. Crew complement: twenty-three.
 * Travis: Not counting newborn babies.
 * Archer: Ensign?
 * Travis: I grew up on a J-class, a little smaller but the same basic design. And one thing I can tell you is that at warp one point eight, you've got a lot of time on your hands between ports. That's how my parents wound up with me.
 * T'Pol: Do you have any helpful information on this vessel beyond its recreational activities?

Cold Front [1.11]

 * Archer: (to Silik) You keep saying you're here to help us. But I can't stop wondering what kind of genetic enhancements you'll get for bringing back that little prize? Eyes in the back of your head? A pair of wings?

 * Trip: (about Daniels) I always knew we'd be meeting people from other planets, but... other centuries?

Silent Enemy [1.12]

 * Archer: You're sure there's nothing down there?
 * T'Pol: Yes, Captain.
 * Archer: Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.

Dear Doctor [1.13]

 * Archer: I have reconsidered. I spent the whole night reconsidering, and what I've decided goes against all my principles. Someday my people are going to come up with some sort of a doctrine, something that tells us what we can and can't do out here, should and shouldn't do. But until somebody tells me that they've drafted that directive, I'm going to have to remind myself every day that we didn't come out here to play God.

Sleeping Dogs [1.14]

 * [after boarding a damaged Klingon ship and finding several Klingons unconscious on the bridge.]
 * Hoshi: Shouldn't we try to help them?
 * T'Pol: They don't want our help.
 * Hoshi: How do you know?
 * T'Pol: They're Klingons.

 * [the Klingon Captain waking up in sickbay.]
 * Bu'kaH: I've never seen your kind before, but you have made an enemy of the Klingon Empire.
 * Archer: From what I've noticed, that's not hard to do.

Shuttlepod One [1.16]

 * [Lt. Reed and Cmdr. Tucker have drunk a whole bottle of bourbon, and are talking about Sub-Cmdr. T'Pol.]
 * Reed: I think she's pretty.
 * Trip: Oh, God.
 * Reed: You ever noticed her bum?
 * Trip: What?
 * Reed: Her bum. She's got an awfully nice bum.
 * Trip: [toasts] To Subcommander T'Pol.
 * Reed: Awfully nice.

 * Trip: It can giggle all it wants, the galaxy's not gettin' any of our bourbon.

Fusion [1.17]

 * T'Pol: (about the crew of the Vahklas) Just because they smile and eat chicken, doesn't mean they have learned to master their emotions.

Rogue Planet [1.18]

 * T'Pol: (regarding Archer's behaviour in seeking a very beautiful woman) I wonder if you would be so determined to find this apparition if it were a scantily-clad man.

 * Archer: (regarding the woman and the aliens who were chasing her) She may just be something I envisioned a long time ago, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna let anyone shoot her.

Acquisition [1.19]

 * Ulis: Rule of Acquisition number twenty-three: "Nothing is more important than your health... except for your money."

 * Krem: I've memorized all 172 Rules of Acquisition. Including the most important one: "A man is only worth the sum of his possessions."
 * Archer: Back on my homeworld, that kind of thinking almost destroyed our civilization.
 * Krem: You should have managed your businesses better.

Oasis [1.20]

 * Trip: What if she gets sick, will you create a holographic doctor...? That's crazy!

Detained [1.21]

 * Trip: A Vulcan lawyer! He'd be better off getting the electric chair.

 * Grat: Have you had a chance to reconsider? I'm willing to compromise, captain. Just tell me what you know about Silik.
 * Archer: Well... He's about this tall. Little on the scrawny side. Bad teeth.

Vox Sola [1.22]

 * Archer:(Watching a game of water polo) Oh, number eight on Texas just fouled one of my boys. He's gonna be ejected for 20 seconds.
 * Tucker: Is that fair? It gives your guys an advantage.
 * Archer: Well, that's the point. I don't suppose it'd be practical to put a pool on the ship.
 * Tucker: I wouldn't wanna be taking a swim if the gravity plating went off-line.
 * Archer: No. No.

Fallen Hero [1.23]

 * Mazarite Captain: Just giving you friendly warning: are you aware your engines are overheating?
 * Archer:: So are yours.

Two Days and Two Nights [1.25]

 * [Mayweather has broken his leg on an alien planet and returned to the ship.]
 * T'Pol: Why didn't you let them finish treating you on the surface?
 * Travis: Have you ever been to an alien hospital?
 * T'Pol: Yes, in San Francisco.

 * Trip: You think this is my fault?
 * Reed: You were willing to follow two strange aliens into a basement.
 * Trip: Gorgeous aliens! Don't forget they were gorgeous!
 * Reed: They were male.
 * Trip: Not at first!

Shockwave [1.26]

 * Tucker: With all due respect sir... This is a level of quantum engineering that's beyond anything I ever learned. How the hell do you know this?
 * Archer: Remember Crewman Daniels?
 * Tucker: Yeah. I saw him get vaporized by our friend Silik.
 * Archer: Well for a cloud of vapor, he's one wealth of information. I just spent 2 hours with him.

 * Future Guy: Have your ships bring me Archer, allow Enterprise to continue.
 * Silik: But we need to recover the disks!
 * Future Guy: Archer. You know what happened the last time you failed me.

Shockwave [2.1]

 * Archer: When I was in my early 20s on a trip to East Africa, I saw a gazelle giving birth. It was truly amazing. Within minutes, the baby was standing up... standing up on its own. A few more minutes, and it was walking. And before I knew it, it was running alongside its mother, moving away with the herd. Humans aren't like that, Ambassador. We may come from the same planet as those gazelles, but we're pretty much helpless when we're born. It takes us months before we're able to crawl. Almost a full year before we can walk. Our deep space mission isn't much different. We're going to stumble, make mistakes. I'm sure more than a few before we find our footing. But we're going to learn from those mistakes. That's what being Human is all about. I'm sorry you can't see that.

Carbon Creek [2.2]

 * Trip: Do realize you've just rewritten our history books?
 * T'Pol: A footnote at best.
 * Trip: Footnote? This is like finding out Neil Armstrong wasn't the first man to walk on the moon.
 * T'Pol: Perhaps he wasn't.

Minefield [2.3]

 * Reed: (Archer is about to give Reed an anesthetic) I hope that's an anesthetic.
 * Archer: Phlox's own recipe.
 * Reed: Ahhhh.... Please sir, may I have some more?

Dead Stop [2.4]

 * Trip: [sampling a replicated pan-fried catfish] Cap'n, you gotta try this.
 * Archer: Thanks, but I'll stick with whatever Chef's serving.

A Night in Sickbay [2.5]

 * Archer: Doctor, are you alright?
 * Phlox: Oh I'm sorry captain, did I wake you? Just trimming my toenails.. They grow quite rapidly. Have to keep them groomed neatly at least once a week.

Marauders [2.6]

 * T'Pol: (listening from afar) Tessic is explaining that the yield is not what they hoped. (pause)
 * Trip: Good ears!

The Seventh [2.7]

 * Archer: (about the arrest of Menos) Why did you want me here?
 * T'Pol: Because I trust you.
 * Archer: Then trust me- you were sent to apprehend him, not to judge him.

The Communicator [2.8]

 * General Gosis: Dr. Temec has a theory about where you come from. I found it hard to believe until I saw this; it was taken by one of our reconnaissance pilots early this morning. He said the craft was traveling at very high speed.
 * Dr. Temec': None of the other planets in our system is capable of supporting life. Where do you come from?
 * General Gosis: Our scientists tell me it's unlikely a craft of this could have traveled from another star system. They suspect a larger craft must be nearby, perhaps even orbiting our planet. Tell me your orders! Have you made contact with The Alliance?

Singularity [2.9]

 * T'Pol: Are you feeling alright Commander?
 * Trip: ...I know you don't think this chair is important, but you're wrong. What's the most critical component on this ship? The main computer? The Warp Reactor? Huh...?! It's the crew. And the most important member of the crew is the captain. He makes life and death decisions every day, and the last thing he needs to be thinking in a critical situation is: 'Gee! I wish this chair wouldn't such pain in the ass!'

Vanishing Point [2.10]

 * Phlox: Transporter technology is very new. I'm sure Humans were equally frightened when the automobile was introduced, or the airplane. New forms of transport take a while to get used to. I'm not at all surprised at your reaction. You wouldn't catch me using that apparatus.

 * Hoshi: Ever since I used that transporter, nothing has been the way that it's supposed to be. I couldn't translate a simple bimodal syntax but Crewman Baird could. Crewman Baird doesn't know the first thing about our linguistic database! And Captain Archer told me to stay in my quarters, but my mirror doesn't want to give me a solid reflection and my shower can't decide whether to bounce off me or go through me! And nobody wants to talk to me.

Precious Cargo [2.11]

 * [while in the escape pod, Trip tastes the food Kaitaama discovered in a storage locker.]
 * Kaitaama: Is it edible?
 * Trip: Depends how hungry you are.

 * Kaitaama: Is your entire species so ill mannered?
 * Trip: Nope...just me.

Cease Fire [2.15]

 * Archer: No offense, but my ears are less likely to draw fire than yours.
 * Soval: [to T'Pol] What is their fixation with our ears?
 * T'Pol: I believe that they are envious.

 * Trip: I don't like pushing the engines to 110%.
 * T'Pol: They are rated for 120.
 * Trip: My underwear's flame-retardant, but it doesn't mean I want to set fire to myself to prove it.

 * Archer: I believe someone once defined a compromise as a solution that neither side is happy with.
 * Shran: In that case, these talks have been extremely successful.

 * Soval: [to Archer] Captain. Your presence here has not been... overly meddlesome. [leaves the briefing room with T'Pol and his aide]
 * Shran: I think he likes you, Pink-Skin.
 * Archer: I wouldn't go that far.

Judgment [2.19]

 * Kolos: My father was a teacher... my mother, a biologist at the university. They encouraged me to take up the law. Now, all young people want to do is take up weapons as soon as they can hold them. They're told there's honor in victory, any victory, but what honor is there in a victory over a weaker opponent? [...] We were a great society not so long ago when honor was earned through integrity and acts of true courage, not senseless bloodshed.

Horizon [2.20]

 * Trip: We're going to be showing three of the greatest horror movies ever made - Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein. We might even throw in Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein.

The Breach [2.21]

 * Phlox: (to the injured Antaran) I have tried to treat you with respect, but I refuse to listen to these insults. You're the reason we haven't been able to put the past behind us. You've kept this hatred alive. No Denobulan would want to be in the same room as you.

Cogenitor [2.22]

 * Archer: (to Trip) You knew you had no business interfering with those people, but you just couldn't let it alone. You thought you were doing the right thing. I might agree if this was Florida or Singapore, but it's not, is it? We're in deep space and a person is dead -- a person who'd still be alive if we hadn't made first contact.

 * Malcolm: There's an old Earth expression: I'll show you mine if... (cough) you show me yours.

Regeneration [2.23]

 * Archer: (talking about Zefram Cochrane) He was giving a commencement address at Princeton when he started to talk about what really happened during First Contact. He mentioned a group of cybernetic creatures from the future who tried to stop his first warp flight when he was living in Montana. He said they were defeated by a group of humans, who were also from the future.
 * T'Pol: As I recall, Cochrane was famous for his imaginative stories. He was also known to be frequently intoxicated.

First Flight [2.24]

 * Robinson: (to Archer) You're a great pilot. Maybe as good as me. But you're never gonna get out into deep space by playing it safe. When the first warp 5 starship is built, it's captain won't be able to call home every time he needs to make a decision. He won't be able to turn to the Vulcans... unless he decides to take one with him.

Bounty [2.25]

 * T'Pol: There's no need to be restrained by human morality.

The Expanse [2.26]

 * Phlox: (to T'Pol) It's interesting. You and I, the only aliens on board this vessel. To go or to stay. For me, it was a simple question of loyalty toward the Captain and the sad realization that he'll need me more than ever on such a crucial mission. But for you, it's a more difficult decision. Does your allegiance lie with the High Command or with Captain Archer?

 * Trip: I can't wait to get in there, Captain. Find the people who did this. And tell me we won't be tip-toein' around. None of that non-interference crap T'Pol's always shovin' down our throats. Maybe it's a good thing she's leavin'.
 * Archer: We'll do what we have to, Trip. Whatever it takes.

The Xindi [3.1]

 * Archer: (in an alien sewer) Sewage takes on a whole new meaning when it comes from a dozen different species.

Anomaly [3.2]

 * [Trip is looking for another treatment for his insomnia.]
 * Phlox: There is Aldebaran mud leeches.
 * Trip: What the hell am I supposed to do with those?
 * Phlox: Place one on your chest and one on your abdomen an hour before going to bed. Their secretions act as a natural sedative. Oh, uh, please be careful to sleep on your back. If you roll over, you might anger them.
 * Trip: Maybe an hour a night with T'pol isn't so bad.

Extinction [3.3]

 * Archer: Captain's starlog, supplemental. We've given Phlox's serum to the captain of the containment vessel. With any luck, they'll be able to use it to prevent future outbreaks. As for Malcolm, Hoshi, and me, it may be a few days before we feel fully human again.

 * Archer: We came out here to stop the Xindi from destroying humanity. I'll be damned if I have a hand in destroying another race in the process.

Rajiin [3.4]

 * Trip: (holding spice) On our planet, wars were fought over these.

Impulse [3.5]

 * T'pol: I know you can't keep me here. So just put me on the next M-Class planet we find!
 * Archer: No.
 * T'pol: Why not?!?!
 * Archer: Because I can't save humanity, without holding on to the things that make me human.

Exile [3.6]

 * Archer: (After Archer asks Trip how long it would take him to reinforce a shuttlepod with Trellium) You might wanna stay clear of the launch bay for the next couple of days.
 * T'Pol: Indeed.

The Shipment [3.7]

 * Gralik: You burst into my home, show me some twisted piece of metal, and tell me it proves I'm a mass murderer? I've never seen your species before, I've never heard of a planet called Earth, and whether you believe me or not, I had nothing to do with killing millions of its inhabitants.

Twilight[3.8]

 * T'Pol: In the corridor, when the anomaly hit, I urged you to leave me behind. If you had, it's likely I'd be the one suffering from this condition.
 * Archer: Fortunately, I don't take orders from you.

North Star[3.9]

 * Bethany: You must think we're barbaric. All the things humanity's accomplished--building ships like this, traveling to other worlds and we're still down there shooting each other.
 * Archer: The progress on Earth, it didn't happen overnight.
 * Bethany: But it was progress all the same. You've managed to change. We haven't. Even if you could take us back, I don't think we're ready.
 * Archer: It may be a while before we're able to start sending ships here. My guess is, by the time they arrive they'll find things have changed.

Similitude [3.10]

 * T'Pol: Symbiots are living, conscious entities. We'll be growing a sentient being for the sole purpose of harvesting tissue.
 * Archer: I'm aware of the ethical implications. If we weren't in the Expanse, maybe my decision would be different, but... we've got to complete this mission. Earth needs Enterprise. Enterprise needs Trip. It's as simple as that.

 * Archer: I don't have to tell you what's at stake. I must complete this mission. And to do that, I need Trip. Trip! I'll take whatever steps necessary to save him.
 * Sym: Even if it means killing me?
 * Archer: Even if it means killing you.
 * Sym: You're not a murderer.
 * Archer: Don't make me one.

 * Archer: The most difficult test facing any captain, any crew, is the loss of a shipmate. We've come here to honor one of our own. In the time we knew him, he showed us just how much one life can truly matter. We will never forget what he did for us and for the ship he loved so much. We will go forward with renewed determination to complete this mission, so that his sacrifice won't just have been for the people on this ship, but for all the citizens of Earth.

Carpenters Street[3.11]

 * T'Pol: We just traveled 90 light years back to Earth?
 * Archer: And 150 years into the past.
 * T'Pol: Forgive me if I'm not entirely convinced.
 * Archer: You will be.

Chosen Realm[3.12]

 * Archer: These people you're fighting, what makes them heretics?
 * Yarrick: We believe the Makers created the Chosen Realm in nine days. They believe it took ten.
 * Archer: For that you've been at war for over a century?

Proving Ground [3.13]

 * Archer: Why are you here?
 * Shran: Your world is in jeopardy and where are your friends, the Vulcans? Where is their mighty fleet? They couldn't even spare one officer. She was forced to abandon her career to remain on your ship. A remarkably selfless act... for a Vulcan.

 * Archer: Give us the (Xindi) weapon.
 * Shran: I respect your perseverance, but you don't think you'll actually be able to take it from us.
 * Archer: No. I think you're going to give it to us... willingly.
 * Shran: [amused] Ha, ha. I should've warned you. Don't drink too much of that Andorian ale in one sitting.

Stratagem[3.14]

 * Degra: (to Archer, about the Xindi probe) When it arrived in your star system, I watched the incoming telemetry with the other members of the council. Seven million lives... were extinguished in front of my eyes. I asked myself, 'How many of those were children?'

Harbinger[3.15]

 * Archer: You weren't sent here against your will. You knew exactly what your mission was. What were your people trying to do?! You tried to destroy my ship! Why?! Answer me!
 * The Alien: When the Xindi destroy Earth, my people will prevail!

Doctor's Orders[3.16]

 * Trip: No offense, Doc, but under normal circumstances I wouldn't even let you in here without four years of Starfleet training under your belt.
 * Phlox: These are hardly normal circumstances.

Hatchery[3.17]

 * Reed: Are you planing on shooting me, Major?
 * Hayes: It's not you I'm worried about.

Azati Prime[3.18]

 * Archer: I've always been much better at avoiding farewells than giving them so I'm not even gonna try. But I'm going to ask all of you to think back to the day when this ship was first launched. We were explorers then. When all this is over, when Earth is safe, I want you to get back to that job. There are 400 billion stars in our galaxy. We've only explored a tiny fraction. You have a lot of work to do. Of all the captains who will sit in this chair, I can't imagine any of them being more proud than I am right now.

Damage[3.19]

 * Illyrian Captain: You're stranding us three years from home. Why are you doing this?
 * Archer: Because I have no choice.

 * Archer: (to T'Pol) We've had our share of disagreements, but you've never taken it out on my desk before.

The Forgotten [3.20]

 * Trip: Every time I start I hear myself sayin', 'What a fine young woman she was. How... how smart and full of potential.' And I realize I'm not thinkin' about Taylor at all. I'm thinkin' about Elizabeth. So many people dead. I tried not to see her any differently than the other seven million, so I spent the last nine months tryin' to pretend she was just another victim. But she's my sister, T'Pol. My baby sister! I envy you Vulcans.
 * T'Pol: You think that the loss of a colleague or a friend doesn't affect us? It does, but if we give in to those emotions, they overwhelm us. You're the ones to be envied.

 * Archer: We're in bad shape. I can't deny that, but we're still in one piece. Enterprise is a tough ship. She took more then anyone could ask her to and then some. And so have all of you. I wanted to say thank you. I only wish I could thank the eighteen crewmen who were lost. Like you, they understood how important our mission is and they accepted the risks. We came into the Expanse not knowing what we'd find. With no one to rely on but ourselves, but we're going to succeed. To accomplish our mission. For everyone on Earth who's relying on us, and for the eighteen.

E²[3.21]

 * Trip: Only in the Expanse could I have a son who's nearly three times my age.

The Council [3.22]

 * Commander Dolim: (after stabbing Degra) The crew of that ship are the last Xindi you'll ever betray.

 * Commander Dolim: (After stabbing Degra) When the humans have been eliminated, when the Council has been replaced by Reptilian rule, I am going to find your wife and children and do the same to them. Your traitorous bloodline will end at the tip of my blade.

Countdown[3.23]

 * Archer: Enterprise may be coming apart at the seams, but I can't say the same for the crew. After nearly eight months in the Expanse they're ready to do what they came to do. No matter what it takes, no matter what the cost.

Zero Hour[3.24]

 * Shran: And tell Archer we're not even any more! He owes me!

Storm Front [4.2]

 * Silik: (to Archer) You've proven a worthy opponent, Captain. I would have preferred to die fighting you. But I suppose I can settle for this.

Home [4.3]

 * Soval: Captain, your actions, while being morally questionable... were necessary. I opposed your appointment as captain of the Enterprise, but it's obvious now I was wrong. T'Pol told me that the Expanse would have someday encompassed hundreds of systems, including Vulcan. You've done a great service for both our worlds... Thank you.

 * Archer: I've been told that people are calling us heroes. When it comes to my crew, you won't get any argument from me. But I think that it's important that we remember the heroes who aren't with us -- the 27 crewmen who didn't make it back. Without their sacrifice, I wouldn't be standing here now; none of us would. But I'm sure I speak on behalf of my entire crew when I say -- it's good to be home.

Borderland

 * Orion Slaver: You are now the property of the Orion syndicate. Break the rules and you will suffer. Obey the rules and you will suffer less.

 * Malik: To quote one of your philosophers, Nietzsche... "Mankind is something to be surpassed."
 * Archer: You think he was talking about you?

Cold Station 12

 * (Archer shoots an Augment three times in order to stun him)
 * Malcolm: If that's what it takes to stun them, what have you got to do to kill them?

The Augments

 * Trip: (to T'Pol) Come on. It's not like we would have made an ideal couple. A Vulcan and a Human? Romeo and Juliet probably stood a better chance.

The Forge

 * Soval: Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of the Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellerites. One moment you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons and the next you confound us by suddenly embracing logic.

 * Admiral Forrest: Ambassador,... Are Vulcans afraid of humans? [Soval says nothing] Why?
 * Soval: Because there is one species you remind us of.
 * Admiral Forrest: [realizing] Vulcans.
 * Soval: We had our wars, Admiral. Just as humans did. Our planet was devastated, our civilization nearly destroyed. Logic saved us. But it took almost fifteen hundred years for us to rebuild our world and travel to the stars. You humans did the same in less than a century. There are those on the High Command who wonder what humans would achieve in the century to come. And they don't like the answer.
 * Admiral Forrest: We're not the Klingons. We only want to be your partners. To do what the nations of Earth have learned to do. To work together in common cause.

 * [T'Pol and Archer discuss the lost writings of Surak, the father of Vulcan logic.]
 * T'Pol: Over the centuries, his followers made copies of his teachings.
 * Archer: Let me guess — with the originals lost, whatever's left is open to interpretation.
 * T'Pol: You find this amusing?
 * Archer: I find it familiar.

 * A possible reference to the books of the Bible and other religious works.

Awakening

 * Trip: I never got the impression you cared that much about humans. Seems like you were always finding something new to complain about.
 * Soval: I lived on Earth for more than 30 years, Commander. In that time I developed an affinity for your world and its people.
 * Trip: You did a pretty good job of hiding it.
 * Soval: Thank you.

Kir'Shara

 * Soval: You must know that torture is rarely effective against Vulcans. Our mental disciplines allow us to suppress pain.
 * Shran: Our security division has had a great deal of experience extracting information from Vulcan operatives. This machine doesn't cause physical discomfort. It uses a neurosynaptic field to lower your emotional threshold. (Soval groans) How do you feel? I've seen Vulcans who were broken by this device. They were never the same again. I have no desire to see that happen to you. Where is your fleet?!
 * Soval: I told you! Our ships are assembling near Regulus! Release me!
 * Shran: I can't. Not until I'm certain you've told us the truth.
 * Soval: Then I suggest you increase the setting and get this over with.

Daedalus

 * [Trip primps his uniform in anticipation of Dr. Erickson's arrival.]
 * Archer: Want a mirror?
 * Trip: You got a mean streak in you, you know that?

 * Emory: Those early days were pretty terrifying. I'm lucky to be alive.
 * Trip: Is it true you were the first person to go through?
 * Emory: I wasn't about to let anyone else do it.
 * Trip: You must have been scared.
 * Emory: Terrified. That original transporter took a full minute and a half to cycle through. Felt like a year. You could actually feel yourself being taken apart and put back together. When I materialized, first thing I did was lose my lunch. [Trip laughs] Second thing I did was get stone drunk. Trick I learned from Zefram Cochrane. Now there was a man who knew the benefits of a little "liquid courage."

Observer Effect

 * Trip: You're a genius. The way you can pick up an alien language you've never heard before and start spouting it back to them. I got to tell you, I've always been jealous you can do that.
 * Hoshi: I wish I could fix warp engines with duct tape and a pocketknife.
 * Trip: It's a bit more complicated than that... sometimes.

Babel one

 * Shran: (to Archer) Your desire for a peaceful resolution is blinding you from the truth.
 * T'Pol: Commander, perhaps...
 * Shran: I've heard enough from you! Vulcans are expert liars, perhaps your people are behind this.

United

 * Shran: You're not especially difficult to work with. Unlike Tellarites, you understand ethics and you try to live by them.
 * Archer: "Try"?
 * Shran: Well, nobody's perfect.

The Aenar

 * Shran: The Vulcans say that the desert teaches men the meaning of endurance, but it's the ice that forges real strength.

 * Phlox: [speaking to Trip about love] This is one ailment that is universally untreatable. You'll have to suffer through it.

Affliction

 * T'Pol: What are you doing here?
 * Trip: I was about to ask you the same thing. Is this a daydream?
 * T'Pol: I'm meditating. This is where I go in my mind.
 * Trip: Wow, I'd think you'd pick somewhere a bit more interesting. Like the beach, or those fire plains you showed me.
 * T'Pol: Please leave.
 * Trip: Exactly where am I supposed to go?
 * T'Pol: Away.
 * Trip: This is my daydream. You go away.

Divergence

 * Trip: Somebody hasn't been taking very good care of my engines.
 * T'Pol: Speak with the Klingons.

Bound

 * Captain Harrad-Sar: You have acquired something of a reputation, Captain.
 * Archer: Favorable, I hope.
 * Harrad-Sar: Well, you're wanted in the Klingon Empire, the Orion Syndicate. I don't know. I would've imagined such a man would have a more... robust appetite.
 * Archer: With all those people after me, I need to stay quick on my feet. [puts down his nearly-full plate of food]

 * T'Pol: (about the Orion women being in control) It proves that even the most disagreeable species have some positive attributes.

In a Mirror, Darkly

 * Mirror Captain Forrest: This isn't like you, Jonathan. You never lusted for power and glory. That's why I trusted you at my side all these years, because you have no ambition.

In a Mirror, Darkly

 * Archer: Great men are not peacemakers. Great men are conquerors!

Demons

 * Phlox: (on Trip's yet-to-be-seen daughter) You'll also be interested to know that she has your eyes and T'Pol's ears.

Terra Prime

 * Archer: Up until about 100 years ago, there was one question that burned in every human, that made us study the stars and dream of traveling to them. Are we alone? Our generation is privileged to know the answer to that question. We are all explorers driven to know what's over the horizon, what's beyond our own shores. And yet the more I've experienced, the more I've learned that no matter how far we travel, or how fast we get there, the most profound discoveries are not necessarily beyond that next star. They're within us, woven into the threads that bind us, all of us, to each other. A final frontier begins in this hall. Let's explore it together.

These Are the Voyages...

 * (In Main Engineering)
 * Trip: ...Been a hell of a run, Malcolm. never thought it would come to an end.
 * Reed: All good things. Captain thinks there'll be another Enterprise before too long.
 * Trip: I imagine.
 * (Final words of Star Trek: Enterprise)
 * Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission...
 * Captain James Tiberius Kirk: ...to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations...
 * Captain Jonathan Archer: ... To boldly go where no man has gone before.

About

 * Things were dictated by the times, by it being post-9/11, but I wanted us to hopefully get back to having a little bit more fun on the show and to get out of that whole Xindi thing. That would have been fun. I think we were pointing in that direction. I think the group was ready to go. The cast was ready to get there, and I think we could have had a blast. But we just didn’t get to go there. And I wanted Archer to kind of grow up and lighten up a little bit.
 * Scott Bakula, "Interview with Scott Bakula", StarTrek.com, August 30, 2010.

 * Q: The prequel concept sounded so promising, but fans never embraced Enterprise the way they had the other shows. Assuming you agree with that statement, why didn’t Trek fans connect with Enterprise to the same degree they had the previous series?
 * Berman: I think everything you just said is true. I think Enterprise was embraced, but by certainly a smaller audience. It was not embraced by a lot of people. There are a lot of different guesses one could make about why. I always felt that whoever came up with the term “franchise fatigue” was right, that there was definitely some of that. There was just too much going on at the same time. By then, DS9 had ended, Voyager was still on the air, a third TNG movie was coming out, and there was definitely a feeling that maybe we were pushing it. “Oh, my God, here comes another Star Trekshow.” It was the fourth Star Trek series in a decade. The prequel idea I think was a good idea. After Voyager we certainly weren’t going to say, “OK, now it’s time for a new show. Voyager is going to go off the air in May and in September you’re going to get a new crew on a new ship in the same century.” The idea of going back and learning a little something about what went on for the very first people who were stepping out into space… it seemed to us to be a great idea. Scott Bakula had a good relationship with Kerry McCluggage, who was running the studio at that point, and he was the first big name that seemed to be interested in doing a series for us. He was an actor who I’d enjoyed in his previous series. So we thought that we’d put together something that, again, was fresh and unique and with some wonderful new actors (around Bakula). The show certainly had a great start. It got very good reviews and it had a huge audience for the first half a dozen episodes and then it started to slip. I could take the blame for it. I could put the blame into the scripts. I could put the blame into franchise fatigue. I don’t know why it didn’t work.
 * Rick Berman, "Rick Berman Looks Back at 18 Years of Trek - Part 2" by StarTrek.com Staff, (February 09, 2011)

 * TrekCore: What were the things on Enterprise that you really wanted to do in the fifth season? The biggest tragedy is when it got cut short. Where were you going to take it?
 * Brannon Braga: Well, Manny Coto had taken over the reins of Enterprise at that point, I was doing some other show for CBS, we were going to continue on with the Mirror Universe, in a major way, I think the Cold War thing would have continued, but Manny Coto, who’s a great guy to interview, he had some big plans for the Mirror Universe. The Mirror Universe episodes were very successful. The Mirror Universe of the movie First Contactwhere Zephram Cochrane blows away the Vulcan with a shotgun? I mean, when I saw that, it was like, “This should just be a whole season!” There were some pretty big things we discussed.
 * TrekCore: I know there’s a large body of work on Voyager and Enterprise where we see the writers credited as ‘Brannon Braga and Rick Berman’. When did that partnership develop between you guys? What was Rick’s input; what was yours?
 * Brannon Braga: Rick was involved with the writing of every episode. He gave incredibly detailed notes on every episode, so his hand as the ultimate executive producer of the show, for better or worse, depending on who you talk to – I think for the better, there were ideas that he’s not credited with, that would make episodes. It would just make them. I don’t know why we decided to write the pilot of Enterprise together, the first time we wrote together. We were working out the story; beating out the story, scene by scene, and one of us just said, “We’re practically writing this together. Let’s do it!” We had a great time, here’s how it worked: we’d come up with the story, lay it out, and they we would sit in a room together. I would type, he’d sit on the couch, and we’d just write the episode.
 * Brannon Braga, “EXCLUSIVE: Brannon Braga Interview, Part II” by Adam Walker, TrekCore, (March 24, 2013).

 * It (the romance with Tucker) was so monotonous. There were a lot of feelings, but nothing ever happened. We repeated the same story over and over. Either make it a relationship or don't, but you can't walk this line forever. It's boring.
 * I had assumptions, and we all know what happens when we assume. I assumed that the ending would be about our show and not a wrap-up of the conglomerate.
 * We started out with 13 million viewers on the pilot, and we somehow managed to drive 11 million of them away.
 * Jolene Blalock, The Toronto Star as quoted on TrekToday.com and JoleneBlalockzone.com.

 * Star Trek: Enterprise was the first Trek series to appear after 9/11, and reflected these new realities. The prequel series crew stumbled as they confronted all manner of unfamiliar civilizations, and did not even get along with the Vulcans very well. Then, in season three a 9/11-style attack on Earth forced Starfleet to launch an expedition to go after the shadowy Xindi, who had launched the strike. Making the Xindi potentially scary was the consortium nature of their alliance, including humanoid, arboreal, insectoid and aquatic species. Just as al Qaeda was an international terrorist consortium, the Xindi was more dangerous together than separately — a fact the Enterprise crew use to pry away some of the species from the organization.
 * Joel R. Campbell, “Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica: Understanding Politics and International Relations", THINK.IAFOR.ORG, (SEPTEMBER 14, 2017).

 * There was a flood of letters from every corner of the world advocating for this Excelsior series and then Paramount suddenly decided they didn’t want fan advice or participation and went ahead and did what they wanted to anyway with Enterprise which was a disastrous failure.
 * Well, Enterprise too was literally going in the wrong direction. Gene was always forward looking and in terms of drama he wanted the shock of the new: new life, new civilizations. When you go backward people start nitpicking at the cannon and the technology.
 * George Takei, "Exclusive: GEORGE TAKEI THANKS FANS FOR 40 YEARS OF 'STAR TREK' - PART 2", Sean Elliot, IF Magazine, 11/20/2007.

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Unsourced quotes

 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * The majority of my songs I dedicate to my muse and longtime fan. A little lady called Fiona Niland, all the way from a little town called Tuam in Ireland.

 * Thank you, Thank you very much.
 * Quote frequently used by impersonators of Elvis and used with a drawl

Unsourced quotes about Presley

 * Elvis Presley is, was, and forever will be the greatest entertainer who ever lived.
 * Jeff Schrembs, 1977

 * Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution — the 60's comes from it.
 * Leonard Bernstein

 * No one will ever touch Elvis.
 * Garth Brooks

 * I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing "Jailhouse Rock," the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.
 * Garth Brooks

 * I think he maybe just got a little tired of repairing all the broken hearts in the world.
 * Tom Waits

 * Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
 * Jimmy Buffett

 * I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang Old Blind Barnabus together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There'll never be another like that soul brother.
 * James Brown

 * If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
 * Johnny Carson

 * Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.
 * Jimmy Carter, 1977

 * The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.
 * Cher

 * It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.
 * Dick Clark

 * He helped to kill off the influence of me and my contemporaries, but I respect him for that. Because music always has to progress, and no-one could have opened the door to the future like he did.
 * Bing Crosby

 * You know, Bush is always comparing me to Elvis in sort of unflattering ways. I don't think Bush would have liked Elvis very much, and that's just another thing that's wrong with him.
 * Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign.

 * When I first heard Elvis' voice, I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody, and nobody was going to be my boss. He is the deity supreme of rock and roll religion as it exists in today's form. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. I thank God for Elvis Presley.
 * Bob Dylan

 * Don't blame it on Elvis, for shakin' his pelvis Shakin' the pelvis been in style way back since the River Nile
 * The Fabulous McClevertys, calypso singers (1957)

 * I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.
 * Mick Fleetwood

 * Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us.
 * Al Green

 * It's always been my dream to come to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.
 * Senator Al Gore, Accepting the nomination for Vice-President at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, prior to Bill Clinton's (aka "Elvis" by his security staff) acceptance of the Presidential nomination.

 * Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
 * Isaac Hayes

 * Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
 * Buddy Holly

 * He was a unique artist — an original in an era of imitators.
 * Mick Jagger

 * Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.
 * Elton John

 * It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.
 * Elton John

 * He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgynous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.
 * k.d. lang

 * Before Elvis, there was nothing.
 * John Lennon

 * A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
 * Huey Lewis

 * He was an instinctive actor... He was quite bright... he was very intelligent... He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated.
 * Walter Matthau in 1987; he worked with Elvis in King Creole (1958)

 * That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the fucking room. I don't give a fuck who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe...
 * Eddie Murphy

 * He was the firstest with the mostest.
 * Roy Orbison

 * This boy had everything. He had the looks, the moves, the manager, and the talent. And he didn't look like Mr. Ed like a lot of the rest of us did. In the way he looked, way he talked, way he acted — he really was different.
 * Carl Perkins

 * Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
 * Keith Richards

 * If there was no Elvis Presley, they're would have been no Cliff Richard. I'm sure of that.
 * Cliff Richard

 * There has never ever been anybody who has matched the phenomenon that Elvis had. The Beatles sort of matched it, but there was four of them.  No one person has ever done what Elvis Presley did and he was the first.  He had everything!  He had the talent, he had the charisma, he had the sexuality, he had the looks. And it was all natural.
 * Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who portrayed Elvis Presley in the made for television movie Elvis (2005), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television film.

 * I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years — 1954-57 — can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.
 * Brian Setzer

 * There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
 * Frank Sinatra (1977) this long after an initial hostility to his style in the 50s, before knowing him.

 * The Postal Service is being wasteful in spending nearly $300,000 to promote its Elvis Presley stamp. To break even, they would have to sell more than one million stamps to collectors who do not then use them.
 * Ralph Nader, a few months before the US Postal Service announced it had made a record breaking US$31 million on the strength of some 120 million unused Elvis stamps, out of the 500 million which were sold, the most for any commemorative stamp in US postal history.

 * That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book.
 * Bruce Springsteen

 * There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
 * Bruce Springsteen

 * It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.
 * Bruce Springsteen

 * Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
 * Rod Stewart

 * A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis.
 * Jackie Wilson R&B singer

 * Elvis is my God. My house is covered with pictures of Elvis.
 * Rachel Weisz

 * I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.
 * B.B. King, King of the Blues

 * (In Rockabilly), the vocal is another important aspect. It should be rough cut and edgy, but also sweet enough to milk the honey from a honey comb at times. Elvis could span several octaves with his voice, thus leaving almost no desires left towards the key of the song.
 * "The High Noon"

Quotes from English Wikipedia

 * ''The following quotes were taken from the biographical article for Elvis Presley on the English Wikipedia. Please feel free to source these and integrate them into Wikiquote if so desired.  Best regards, Hall Monitor 21:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Quotes from Elvis
- Elvis recalls his reaction to being given an acoustic guitar for his eleventh birthday. - Elvis. - Elvis. - Elvis in 1956, talking about his way of moving on stage. - Elvis. - From his acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award. Given at a ceremony on January 16, 1971. (Elvis quotes from copyrighted material with lines from the song "Without a Song".) - Talking about the informal jam sessions he and the band and entourage enjoy each night during the lengthy Vegas engagements. These happen upstairs in Elvis' suite at the Las Vegas Hilton as they all try to "wind down" from the excitement and energy of the live shows. Quote is from a 1972 taped interview used in MGM's documentary Elvis on Tour. - From the press conference prior to his record-breaking Madison Square Garden shows in New York City, 1972. - Elvis often used this adaptation of a well-known quotation. - Elvis in 1975, closing his greatest tour. - Elvis at a press conference prior to his 1973 television special, Elvis -Aloha from Hawaii, via Satellite. - Said in 1977 at the end of a concert during his last tour.
 * "I wanted a bicycle."
 * "The most beautiful thing in the world to me is a baby lookin' as pretty as her mamma."
 * "When you let your head get too big it'll break your neck."
 * "Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess."
 * "People who read sex into my music have dirty minds."
 * "When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you."
 * "We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine."
 * "...the image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image."
 * "Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes."
 * "Shock the world."
 * "A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts."
 * "'Til we meet you again, may God bless you. Adios."

Quotes about Elvis
Elvis Presley, the singer, interpreter and vocalist: voice range, extension, color, compass, center of gravity and phraseology

"Elvis Presley has been described variously as a baritone and a tenor. An extraordinary compass, and a very wide range of vocal color have something to do with this divergence of opinion. The voice covers two octaves and a third, from the baritone low-G to the tenor high B, with an upward extension in falsetto to at least a D flat. Presley's best octave is in the middle, D-flat to D-flat.  Call him a high baritone. In "It's now or never", he ends it in a full voice cadence (A, G, F), that has nothing to do with the vocal devices of Rhythm and Blues and Country. That A-note is hit right on the nose, and it is rendered less astonishing only by the number of tracks where he lands easy and accurate B-flats. Moreover, he has not been confined to one type of vocal production.  In ballads and country songs he belts out full-voiced high G's and A's that an opera baritone might envy. Elvis' voice is, in a word, an extraordinary voice, or many voices". - Henry Pleasants, in his book "The Great American singers".

"I suppose you'd had to call him a lyric baritone, although with exceptional high notes and unexpectedly rich low ones. But what is more important about Elvis Presley is not his vocal range, nor how high, or low it extends, but where its center of gravity is. By that measure, Elvis was all at once a tenor, a baritone and a bass, the most unusual voice I've ever heard".- Gregory Sandows, Music Professor at Columbia University, published in The Village Voice.

" ....(in his voice), Elvis Presley possessed the most beautiful musical instrument, and the genius to play that instrument perfectly. (He) could jump from octave to countless other octaves with such agility without voice crack, simultaneously sing a duet with his own overtones, rein in an always-lurking atomic explosion to so effortlessly fondle, and release, the most delicate chimes of pathos. Yet, those who haven't been open to explore some of Presley's most brilliant work - the almost esoteric ballads and semi-classical recordings -, have cheated themselves out of one of the most beautiful gifts to fall out of the sky in a lifetime".- Mike Handley, narrator and TV/radio spokesman.

"I am reminded of a comment made shortly after the death of Elvis Presley by a musician he had worked with. He pointed out that despite an impressive vocal range of two and a half octaves - something approaching perfect pitch-, Elvis was willing to sing off-key when he thought the song required it. Those off-key notes were art".- Patrick H. Adkins, "The Dream vaults of Opar"

"Elvis' initial hopes for a music career involved singing in a gospel male quartet. His favourite part was bass baritone, and he himself had an almost 3-octave vocal range... Yet to posterity's surprise, such a superlative and magnetic natural talent always remained humble --perhaps too humble to keep performing forever". IMDb's review of his appearance in Frank Sinatra's 1960's "Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley" TV special.-

"With the way he was marketed, he didn't even need to be able to sing the way he could. But Elvis had talent, plain and simple. The guy had a variety in his vocal styles and approach, he could make more vocal tones, with just his voice, than a guitar player with 50 pedals and gadgets. If you never even saw the guy, you could plain feel, not just hear, the emotion and passion in his voice, and you are immediately taken in, one hundred percent. On the merit of vocals alone, he had more talent in the barbecue stuck in his teeth than the singers who sell millions of records do today".- Country singer Roger Wallace, in "Soapbox".-

"We can even hazard a little analysis as to what made his voice so appealing. "That curious baritone," one critic called it. Actually, that is inexact. The voice had mixed propensities, hovering between tenor and bass and everything in between. Even a convincing falsetto lay within his range. One thing he was not, ever, was Steve-'n-Edie, the polished, professionally accomplished Vegas artistes who once pronounced on an afternoon interview show (Mr. Lawrence enunciating the sentiment for himself and his partner/wife, Ms. Gorme), "We don't really think of Elvis as a singer. But he was a star." It is only when, years later, one gets past the indignation of hearing such apparent ignorance, that the sense of the observation becomes clear. A singer is someone like Steve Lawrence rolling effortlessly (and meaninglessly) through a shlock-standard like "What Now, My Love?". More or less like doing the scales. A star is the persona in whom one invests one's vicarious longings, a being who is constantly hazarding — and intermittently succeeding at — the impossible stretches that every soul wishes to attempt but lacks the means or the will to. It's not a matter of virtuosity.- Jackson Baker, in Memphis Magazine's July 2002 issue.-

"People will often say that opera singers sound too stiff and operatic when singing contemporary music. This is because the vowels in an operatic style tend to be more open,  whereas in a rock style singers tend to thin out the vowel.  There is nothing wrong,  and everything right,   in opening the vowel in the higher register so that the higher notes can be sustained.  Elvis Presley was very open in his singing style even though he was "the" rock and roller .-   Brain Gilbertson, world-famous voice teacher.

"He rarely over-sang when recording, delivering a vocal to suit the song. So, he can rasp and rage for "Jailhouse Rock", loudly accuse in "Hound Dog", bare his soul and beg on "Any Day Now" and sound quietly, sadly, worldly-wise on "Funny How Time Slips Away". This gift may explain why his music endures so powerfully and why his performances remain so easy to hear".- Paul Simpson, in "The rough guide to Elvis".

"Elvis was a (Gospel) singer par excellence. On "Milky White Way", he' got the strength of a bassman and the sweetness of a tenor. The heritage we have in Elvis' gospel music is a gift to the world".- Paul Poulton, Cross Rhythms Magazine If I Can Dream

" ...the accompaniment is ornamented with bells, horns, and female choir, but it is Elvis' voice upon which the words depend for their dramatic effect. In a departure quite uncharacteristic of country music, there is a fierce, almost shocked indignation and passionate intensity in his voice, transforming a fairly ordinary song into a vehicle for savage social protest". - Rolling Stone"'s review of ¨Long Black Limousine", found in the 1969 "From Elvis in Memphis" album.

" Elvis' ¨Love me tender¨ is a timeless classic that his fans return to, time and again, when choosing their favourite love song, but why is this early recording such a favourite? It could be the simplicity of the lyric, that wonderful vocal which quivers with an understated power and beauty, or the honest, pure sentiment of a song that has touched millions. Two minutes and 40 seconds have never been used more beautifully.''.- An RCA/BMG spokesman commenting on "Love me Tender" being voted Presley's favourite song, by a poll of more than 5,000 of fans

" (in Rockabilly), the vocal is another important aspect. It should be rough cut and edgy, but also sweet enough to milk the honey from a honey comb at times. Elvis could span several octaves with his voice, thus leaving almost no desires left towards the key of the song". - The High Noon.-

"Then, in mid 1968 he taped a television special in a black leather suit, in front of a select live audience, opening with "Guitar Man" and closing with a mild social-conscience song, "If I Can Dream,". But it wasn't until Greil Marcus brought out the recording of that performance for me, almost three years later, that I realized how significant it had been. Marcus has spent as much time listening as anyone who is liable to be objective, and he believes Elvis may have made the best music of his life that crucial comeback night. It's so easy to forget that Elvis was, or is, a great singer. Any account of his impact that omits that fundamental fact amounts to a dismissal".- Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock critics, in his 1973 book "Any old way you choose".-

"I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness".- B.B. King

" Had Presley never sung a note he might have still caused a stir, but sing he did. Watershed hits such as "Heartbreak Hotel", "All Shook Up", "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", and "Are You Lonesome Tonight", were eminately Presley's  from the moment he put his stamp on them.   His jagged, bubbly highs,   and Southern baritone jump from those recordings like spirits from a cauldren. Elvis crooned romantically, then screeched relentlessly,  always pouring his heart into the lyric and melody. After Elvis, the male vocalist could no longer just sing a song, especially in the new world of rock-n-roll.  The "feel" of a performance far out-weighed the perfection of the take".-   James Campion, "The 25 Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century: #5", published in 1996.

As performer'

"Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if he had swallowed a jackhammer." Time Magazine, May 15, 1956

"You have no idea how great he is, really you don't. You have no comprehension - it's absolutely impossible. I can't tell you why he's so great, but he is. He's sensational." Phil Spector

"A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis." Jackie Wilson

"He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old." k.d. lang

"The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience." Cher

"'If Presley copied me, I don't care. More power to him. I'm not starving'" - Bo Diddley

"'There's no way to measure his impact on society or the void that he leaves. He will always be the King of rock 'n' roll.' - Pat Boone

'There was something just bordering on rudeness about Elvis. He never actually did anything rude, but he always seemed as if he was just going to. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate him eleven.' - Sammy Davis Jr

'At 9.15 Elvis appeared, materialized, in a white suit of lights, shining with golden appliqués, the shirt front slashed to show his chest. Around his shoulders was a cape lined in a cloth of gold, it's collar faced with scarlet. It was anything you wanted to call it, gaudy, vulgar, magnificent.' - The New York Times

"'What he did was a part of history.'" - Bing Crosby

'Elvis Presley was a beautiful young person, right, whose recordings were just colossally great. But basically the best stuff he ever did was on the Sun record label. And then he got involved with Colonel Parker and went to RCA and then went the Hollywood way. The whole thing became completely ruined.' - Mark Knopfler

'Even back then, when people would laugh at his sideburns and his pink coat and call him 'cissy' - he had a pretty hard road to go. In some areas motorcycle gangs would come to the shows. They would come to get Elvis, but he never worried about it. He went right out and did his thing and before the show was over, they were standing in line to get his autograph too.' - Carl Perkins

'A truly good man who never forgot his friends or his fans.' - Liberace

"Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think." - Ian Hunter

"He was the greatest living pop idol in the world." - Marc Bolan

Negative and positive impact on youth

"His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac...It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people." Frank Sinatra, 1950's

"It isn't enough to say that Elvis is kind to his parents, sends money home, and is the same unspoiled kid he was before all the commotion began. That still isn't a free ticket to behave like a sex maniac in public." Eddie Condon Cosmopolitan, December 1956

'Popular music has been sinking in this country for some years. Now it has reached its lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley.' - Ben Gross

'Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. For the ear he is an unutterable bore....' - Jack Gould (New York Times, 1956)

As actor and movie star

"As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it." Howard Thompson Review of King Creole New York Times, 1958

"He was an instinctive actor...He was quite bright...he was very intelligent...He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated." Walter Matthau, who co-starred with Elvis in King Creole (1958). From a 1987 interview.

"A Presley picture is the only sure thing in Hollywood." Hal Wallis Producer of nine of Elvis' films.

"'He's a very well-mannered and sensitive person - just like me.' - Ursula Andress

'Every morning when I woke up and looked out the window, there were at least two hundred kids lined up on the sidewalk outside, staring at the house. Some of them would stay there all day long, just trying to get a glimpse of him. And when he would go out, he was very sweet to them. A lot of people I know would get angry, or impatient - but Elvis is very sweet to the kids, very nice to them. He always spend as much time with them as he can, even though it tires him out' - Natalie Wood

'He's naturally kind and thoughtful and good. Best of all, in spite of his huge success - he's unassuming' - Connie Stevens

'I thought anyone who had been the center of all that insanity for so long would have some of it rub off on him. But, after working in Change of habit with him, I realised I'd never worked with a more gentlemanly, kinder man. He's gorgeous.' - Mary Tyler Moore

On his return to live performances

"There is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back home...He sang with the kind of power people no longer expect from rock 'n' roll singers." John Landau Review of Elvis, (1968 TV Special).

"It was the finest music of his life. If ever there was music that bleeds, this was it." Greil Marcus From his book, Mystery Train, remembering the 1968 TV Special.

"There are several unbelievable things about Elvis, but the most incredible is his staying power in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars." Newsweek, August 11, 1969 Review of Elvis' Las Vegas engagement.

"...a style and panache that come close to pure magic. Lithe, raunchy, the sweat pouring down his face, he now moves with the precision of an athlete, the grace of a dancer...flamboyant and flashy, sexy and self-mocking, he works with the instincts of a genius to give poetry to the basic rock performance." W.A. Harbinson From his 1975 book, The Illustrated Elvis. A passage reflecting upon Elvis' 1969 Vegas engagement.

"'It was just incredible in Vegas. I was kidding him. He introduced me and said, "Campbell, I understand you're doing an imitation of me. I just want you to know it will always be an imitation." And I said, "I'm not going to do it no more, I got to gain some weight first." He laughed and the audience went, "Ooh, hey, boo." I said, "Can't you take a joke?" And Elvis said, "Well, when you're down here next, I'm coming down and I'm gonna sit in the front row and read the newspaper and heckle." The audience laughed and I said, "Elvis, if I'm singing as good as you are, I won't care."' - Glen Campbell

As producer

"So what it boils down to was Elvis produced his own records. He came to the session, picked the songs, and if something in the arrangement was changed, he was the one to change it. Everything was worked out spontaneously. Nothing was really rehearsed. Many of the important decisions normally made previous to a recording session were made during the session. What it was was a look to the future. Today everybody makes records this way. Back then Elvis was the only one. He was the forerunner of everything that's record production these days. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone imitated him. People started doing what Elvis did." Bones Howe Recording Engineer As quoted in Jerry Hopkins' 1971 book, Elvis, A Biography.

On his death

"I'm just a singer, but Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American Culture. Life just wouldn't have been the same without him." Frank Sinatra in 1977 preaching a different view of Elvis than he had back in 1956 (see impact on youth quotes above).

"There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man." Frank Sinatra, 1977.

"Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country." President Jimmy Carter, 1977. His official statement following Elvis' death.

'God must have been impatient for some rock'n'roll in heaven.' - Jimmy Saville

"I broke down....One of the very few times. I went over my whole life. I went over my whole childhood. I didn't talk to anyone for a week after Elvis died." - Bob Dylan

"The news of his death absolutely stunned me. I stopped drinking." - Elton John

Impact on music, people, other entertainers

" The conventional wisdom regarding Presley's singular role in popularizing rock 'n' roll is that he made black music palatable to a young white audience. And he remains astoundingly underrated for his ability to sing anything, anytime, anywhere. As noted by Greg Drew, a New York City-based voice coach whose clients include Lenny Kravits, Avril Lavigne, and Corey Glover ¨What (Presley) actually did was take 'black' music and 'white' music, and transform them into this third thing, which ended up being rock. No one sang so many different kinds of music as well as he sang them, and at such a high level, for such a long time - rock, gospel, country, standards-. Can you imagine Bruce Springsteen, or Bono, or Michael Stipe winning a Grammy for singing gospel music?¨" Mike Brewster, in his article "The Great Innovators", published in "Business Week", September 23, 2004.

"I don't want him on my show, I don't care what anyone says about him - how great a talent he is - he just won't be in my show and that's that." Ed Sullivan, 1956.

"I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy." Ed Sullivan during Elvis' third appearance on his show, January 6, 1957

"Elvis will never contribute a damn thing to music." Bing Crosby, 1956.

"The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business." Bing Crosby in 1973, smartly doing a 180 on his quoted 1956 opinion.

"...if any individual of our time can be said to have changed the world, Elvis Presley is the one. In his wake more than music is different. Nothing and no one looks or sounds the same. His music was the most liberating event of our era because it taught us new possibilities of feeling and perception, new modes of action and appearance, and because it reminded us not only of his greatness, but of our own potential." Greil Marcus From his book, Mystery Train.

"He was an integrator. Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let black music through. He opened the door for black music." Little Richard

"Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly... Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better." Stephen King

"...At Sun Studio in Memphis Elvis Presley called to life what would soon be known as rock and roll with a voice that bore strains of the Grand Ole Opry and Beale Street, of country and the blues. At that moment, he ensured - instinctively, unknowingly - that pop music would never again be as simple as black and white." David Fricke Rolling Stone, 1986

"Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it." Leonard Bernstein, 1960s.

"There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king." Bruce Springsteen

"...it was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear, and somehow we all dreamed it." Bruce Springsteen

"I doubt very much if the Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis. God bless you Elvis." Paul McCartney

"Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us." Al Green

"Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me." Elton John

"A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records...Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better." Huey Lewis

"Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps." Rod Stewart

"He was a unique artist - an original in an area of imitators." Mick Jagger

"Before Elvis, there was nothing." John Lennon

"This boy had everything. He had the looks, the moves, the manager, and the talent. And he didn't look like Mr. Ed like a lot of the rest of us did. In the way he looked, way he talked, way he acted - he really was different." Carl Perkins

"I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang Old Blind Barnabus together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There'll never be another like that soul brother. James Brown

"He was the firstest with the mostest." Roy Orbison

"Elvis Presley was an explorer of vast new landscapes of dream and illusion. He was a man who refused to be told that the best of his dreams would not come true, who refused to be defined by anyone else's conceptions. This is the goal of democracy, the journey on which every prospective American hero sets out. That Elvis made so much of the journey on his own is reason enough to remember him with the honor and love we reserve for the bravest among us. Such men made the only maps we can trust." Dave Marsh From his book, Elvis.

"As a musicologist - and I consider myself one - there was always a great deal of respect for Elvis, especially during his Sun sessions. As a black people, we all knew that. My whole thing was the one-sidedness - like, Elvis' icon status in America made it like nobody else counted. My heroes came from someone else. My heroes came before him. My heroes were probably his heroes"--Chuck D, Newsday interview, 2002.

"That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f---ing room. I don't give a f--- who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe." Eddie Murphy

"When I first heard Elvis' voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody; and nobody was going to be my boss...Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail." Bob Dylan

"He was ahead of his time because he had such deep feelings. He had the privilege of deep feelings because he was deeply loved by his mother, Gladys. He was able to appreciate profound beauty in sounds. And he started a musical revolution. They say all revolutions start from love." Imelda Marcos

"It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer." Dick Clark

"Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business." Isaac Hayes

"I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States." Mick Fleetwood

"I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool." Brian Setzer

"I've seen those famous Nixon transcripts where Elvis actually starts to try to shop us - The Beatles! He's in the transcript saying - to Richard Nixon, of all people - 'Well, sir, these Beatles: they're very un-American and they take drugs.' I felt a bit betrayed by that, I must say. The great joke is that we were taking drugs, and look what happened to him. He was caught on the toilet full of them! It was sad; but I still love him, particularly in his early period. He was very influential on me." Paul McCartney

"The saddest part is that, years and years later, we found out that he tried to have us banished from America, because he was very big with the FBI. That's very sad to me, that he felt so threatened that he thought, like a lot of people, that we were bad for American youth. This is Mr Hips, the man, and he felt we were a danger. I think that the danger was mainly to him and his career." Ringo Starr

"Elvis really died the day he joined the army. That's when they killed him, and the rest was a living death." John Lennon

'It was a real thrill sitting there with the King. I mean he was always one of my favourites. I always knew that no matter how I felt, if I played an Elvis record it would make me happy. I've always dreamed of producing an album for Elvis.' - Paul McCartney

"The first time I heard his music, back in '54 or '55, I was in a car and I heard the announcer say, "Here's a guy who, when he appears on stage in the South, the girls scream and rush the stage". Then he played 'That's all right, mama'. I thought his name was about the weirdest I'd ever heard. I thought for sure he was a Black guy. Later on I grew my hair like him, imitated his stage act - once I went all over New York looking for a lavender shirt like the one he wore on one of his albums. I felt wonderful when he sang 'Bridge over troubled water', even though it was a touch on the dramatic side - but so was the song." - Paul Simon

“Elvis Presley is Probably the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.” - Peter Noone

Anyone have time to mine this?-- http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/page/classicrock?entry=elvis_presley_by_ian_gillan Includes stuff like this: Michael Parkinson once asked the famous New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa about the greatest voice she'd ever heard, probably expecting her to name [Luciano] Pavarotti or Maria Callas, but she said, 'The young Elvis Presley, without any doubt.' Sorry, no time myself--M-K

Elvis and politicians

"You Memphis politicians had better watch out if Elvis Presley ever decides to enter politics." George Bush.

"It's always been my dream to come to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis." Senator Al Gore Accepting the nomination for vice president at the 1992 Democratic Convention & prior to Bill Clinton's (aka "Elvis" by his security staff) acceptance of the presidential nomination.

"You know, Bush is always comparing me to Elvis in sort of unflattering ways. I don't think Bush would have liked Elvis very much, and that's just another thing that's wrong with him." Bill Clinton During the 1992 presidential campaign.

Pop Chronicles interview
The audio of the Pop Chronicles interview (by Lew Irwin) says that the interview was recorded in 1956, but the interview index says 1955. I added 1955 (for the quote just added). Is anyone able to figure out which one must be right? DougHill (talk) 03:46, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

He seems to be talking about events of 1956 (his Vegas gig), so I think the audio is right. I'll change it on the page. DougHill (talk) 02:56, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Page getting out of hand
IMHO there are way too many quotes "About" Elvis. And many of the quotes are not even really about him. And some are poorly sourced. I propose we eliminate all such quotes, and edit down other quotes to the parts that are really about him. Objections? DougHill (talk) 03:39, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Coming to this a few years later, I totally agree. It makes no sense to have quotes which mention Elvis but aren't about him in any real sense. MartinPoulter (talk) 14:29, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know if wikiquote has some guidelines about how long a page should be, but I checked here and it says the this page is 1,256,461bytes long Ottawahitech (talk) 16:14, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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