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Classic AMC Lines

Alex and David spar after he discovers Anna in the turret (2001).
Alex: "I should throw you off this turret."
David: "Don't even make a joke about that, Alex. One time being thrown down a flight of stairs by you is enough, thank you."

Anna:

Maggie tries to reassure a dubious Anna when David goes missing (2002).
Maggie: "Maybe he's planning something for the two of you, you know, now that you're back together- a celebration or something."
Anna: "Maybe. Maybe I should believe in unicorns."

Anna reveals to Liza why she can't completely sever her ties to Daivd (2002).
Anna: "I'm pregnant."
Liza: "God help you."

A pregnant Anna reluctantly sates her need for calcium (2002).
Anna: "Do you like milk?"
Leo: "Not especially."
Anna: "Me neither. Just be thankful you're a man."

David:

Edmund and David seal their deal for Edmund to secretly fund the doctor's X-17 research (2003).
David: "Make sure I don't get thrown back in jail, Edmund. They won't let me take my Bunsen burner."

Anna seems less than thrilled when David gives her flowers (2002).
David: "Would you have preferred something else? Perhaps a lizard-skin holster for your .38?"

David scoffs at Alex's plans to stay at Wildwind (1999). 
David: "You plan to hang around Weirdwind? Help the help polish the silver. Floss the gargoyle's teeth."

Vanessa warns David about Adam (1999).
Vanessa: "I don't think you understand exactly how powerful he is."
David: "Even Achilles had a weakness, Mother."
Vanessa: "Don't you forget. I knew him when he was a younger man."
David: "Who? Achilles?"

David observes a penniless Vanessa living well at the Valley Inn (1999).
David: "Well, well, Mother, it looks like I owe you an apology. I once told you that you were too old and decrepit to be a kept woman. Clearly, I was wrong."

Vanessa and David squabble after she returns from a trip to Rio with Palmer (1999).
Vanessa: "Anyone who says chivalry is dead hasn't flown across the world with Palmer Cortlandt. A girl could get used to that kind of life."
David: "A girl? Or a dried-up, penniless shrew?"

David consoles Gillian who has just been rebuffed by Ryan (1998).
Gillian: "The whole world hates me."
David: "By the whole world, do you mean that tall guy with the muscles on his forehead?"
Gillian (dejectedly): "Yeah, Ryan Lavery."

Dimitri:

Erica brags about her effect on men (1998).
Erica: "No man really stops loving me."
Dimitri: "It's you humility that hooks us."

Erica describes how, after choosing Jack over Mike, she felt compelled to say goodbye to Mike by having sex with him (1998).
Erica (defensively): "It was quite poignant."
Dimitri (amused): "I'm sure it was a lot of things."

Janet and Dimitri compare their bad deeds (1996).
Janet: "I've earned my reputation as a pariah- what have you done?"
Dimitri: "I kidnapped Gloria Marsh."
Janet: "Did you bring her back?"
Dimitri: "Eventually."
Janet: "Amateur."
Dimitri: "I almost ran down Erica with my car."
Janet: "Will Cortlandt- need I say more?"

Dimitri to Corvina (1995).
Dimitri: "Anton has compassion for the sick- and no one's sicker than Kendall!"

Kendall and Dimitri (1995).
Kendall: "You could start a support group with John Wayne Bobbitt: 'Men who love the women who cut them down to size.'"
Dimitri: "Don't you ever get sick of yourself?"
Kendall: "Can you just pretend I don't exist?"
Dimitri: "Watch us."

Edmund and Dimitri (1994).
Edmund: "I have good news."
Dimitri: "Satan wants Kendall back in hell?"

Edmund scolds Erica and Dimitri for fighting (1993).
Erica: "Your brother is right. We might as well be a couple of mongrel dogs fighting it out in an alley."
Dimitri: "Speak for yourself. At least I have a pedigree."

Edmund:

Edmund puts down Ryan (1998)
Ryan: "I may not have any Pulitzers, but I am capable of a serious thought or two."
Edmund: "And I would love to hear one someday."

Dimitri and Edmund ask Gillian about the state of her marriage (1998).
Dimitri: "Gillian, are the charms of wedded life starting to wear off?"
Gillian: "Why would you ask that?"
Edmund: "The sounds of crashing glass and breaking furniture."

Edmund and Maria arrive at their home (1995).
Edmund: "All is quiet on the Wildwind front."
Maria: "I don't hear any pitter-patter of tiny pumps."
Edmund: "No, the media goddess won't be back for a while."

Edmund to Maria, as everyone frantically searches for Bianca (1993). Edmund: "Bianca will be fine. She's Erica in knee-highs- a diva in the making."

Brooke (trying to get Edmund to spill the beans about Tad and Dixie's affair): "You were dancing around a lot of innuendo before. Please spell it out."
Edmund: "I don't think I can spell innuendo."

Gillian:

An angry Gillian confuses her relationship book lingo as she blasts Ryan (1999).
Gillian: "You've wasted enough of my time with your stupid Peter Pan boy-from-Mars syndrome."
Ryan: "My what?"

Later Gillian fills in Jake on her fight with Ryan (1999).
Gillian: "He's from Mars and I'm from Hungary, so it's over. I gave him his running papers."
Jake (confused): "I'm not quite following."

Gillian tells Ryan about her new hobby (1999).
Ryan (incredulous): "You play basketball?"
Gillian: "I'm no Magic Jordan, but I'm pretty good, if I do say so myself."

Gillian tells Edmund and Mateo about Hayley and Ryan's kiss (1999).
Gillian: "Maybe I should just stay out of this and let the fries fall where they may."
Edmund: "Chips?"
Gillian: "No, I can't eat."

Ryan is trying to comfort a trapped Gillian after the blast at Holidays (1998).
Ryan: "Maybe now would be a good time to tell you my pet peeve."
Gillian: "You have a pet named Pete?"

Ryan praises Gillian for her courage in trying to catch Lee Hawkins (1998).
Ryan: "You've got guts."
Gillian: "What do my intestines have to do with any of this?"

Maria:

Aidan tries to dissuage Maria from accompanying him to the Bahamas (2003).
Aidan: "Look, where I'm going is way too dangerous for you, Maureen."
Maria: "Oh, sure, as opposed to my warm, cozy castle where some pyschopath is trying to use me as a lab rat?" (They continue to argue.) Aidan: "You know it's going to kill me if anything happens to you."
Maria: "Yeah, I'm going to kill you if anything happens to me."

Maria's still furious with Erica (1995).
Maria: "I just want to go home and crawl into bed and not see Erica."
Edmund: "I've made arrangements."
Maria: "Like what? Concrete swim fins in her size?."