Sam Hurley: You ever been locked up? Some people can stand it and some people can't. The ones who can't would kill themselves and anybody else just to get out for five minutes.

- Stephen McNally (as Sam Hurley) in Split Second (1953)

Larry Fleming: Well, Colonel, when you've seen one atom bomb, you've seen them all.

- Keith Andes (as Larry Fleming) in Split Second (1953)

Larry Fleming: You don't think very much of people, do you?
Sam Hurley: I don't think very much of anything.

- Stephen McNally (as Sam Hurley) in Split Second (1953)