- [Clark answers the door wearing only a towel around his waist]
- Lois Lane: I said nine, I thought you'd be naked, umm, ready.
- [Martha and Clark finally pick a good disguise for Clark]
- Martha Kent: Well, one thing's for sure. Nobody's going to be looking at your face.
- Clark Kent: Mom!
- Martha Kent: [laughing] Well they don't call them tights for nothing!
- Lois Lane: So, explain something to me. You - you eat like an eight year old and you look like Mr. Hardbody. What's your secret? And can I have it?
- Lois Lane: I'll need a task force. I can't cover this story alone.
- Perry White: You can have Jimmy.
- Lois Lane: Chief, we're talking about the space program.
- Perry White: Ok, take Kent.
- Lois Lane: Kent?
- Perry White: Kent!
- Lois Lane: What about Meyerson?
- Perry White: He's busy.
- Lois Lane: Burns?
- Perry White: Budapest.
- Lois Lane: Forget Kent.
- Perry White: Uh-uh, he's a good man.
- Lois Lane: Kent is a hack from Smallville. I couldn't make that name up.
- Perry White: Kent or nobody.
- Lois Lane: Fine. Don't ever say that I'm not a team player.
- Lois Lane: You are a strange one, Clark Kent.
- Clark Kent: Am I?
- Lois Lane: Yeah, but I think I got you figured out.
- Clark Kent: Really?
- Lois Lane: Umhm
- Clark Kent: Didn't take you very long.
- Lois Lane: Well, it's my business looking beyond the external. Don't fall for me farmboy. I don't have time for it.
- Lois Lane: I live by three rules. I never get involved with my stories, I never let anybody else get there first and I never sleep with anyone I work with.
- Man #1: What the hell is that?
- Man #2: Is it a bird?
- Man #3: Is it a plane?
- Man with binoculars: No, just a guy in a pair of tights and a cape.
- [explaining to the rest of the passengers what happened after her first encounter with Superman]
- Lois Lane: [a little dazed] There was a bomb. He...ate it.
- Lois Lane: And let's get something straight, I did not work my buns off to become an investigative reporter for the Daily Planet just to baby-sit some hack from Nowheresville! And another thing, you are not working with me, you are working for me. I call the shots, I ask the questions. You are low man - I am top banana and that's the way I like it, comprende?
- Clark Kent: You like to be on top. Got it.
- Lois Lane: Don't push me Kent, you are way out of your league.
- Lois Lane: [regarding Cat Grant] What do men see in her, anyway? Don't they realize she's just looking for another notch on her garter belt?
- Jimmy Olsen: Pathetic.
- [pause]
- Jimmy Olsen: Have you actually seen this garter belt?
- Lois Lane: [Lois opens a fortune cookie] It's in Chinese.
- Lois Lane: [Clark takes the paper. Lois looks at him mockingly] Oh, don't tell me that you read...
- Clark Kent: A good horse is like a member of the family.
- Lois Lane: I still can't believe you came barreling in here like some 500-pound gorilla! If you really thought we were in trouble, why didn't you bring the police?
- Clark Kent: Look...
- Lois Lane: Don't tell me, I already know! You're like every other man in Metropolis! You've got this testosterone surplus that says, "I can do it myself"!
- Clark Kent: Lois, I've somehow managed to...
- Lois Lane: Mess everything up? No kidding!