- Capt. Sam Moran: Hey, Kimo, if I was lookin' for a young girl, maybe a party, somethin' goin' on from last night, where would I look?
- Kimo: Sure, one bugger your age still runnin' up the beach lookin' for wahines.
- Kunewa: Sam, was this girl on the spike?
- Capt. Sam Moran: What?
- Kunewa: I asked if she was on junk. She's got chicken tracks on both arms.
- Capt. Sam Moran: The other boys know anything?
- Kimo: Sam, if I don't know it, it ain't worth knowing.
- Kimo: I heard they had some kind of scene up there - Kryder's place, the one up Diamond Head. That's real upper valley sick time, though.
- Kittibelle Lightfoot: You better drive with me to town. I'll drop you off at Akamai Barnes. He knows more about what to do about what than - well, he'll know.
- Capt. Sam Moran: I went over to the kid and I said, "I'm Sam Moran and I guess we oughta talk." She looked up at me, and she said, "So, you're Sam Moran?" And she spit right in my face. And after that, the relationship deteriorated.
- Capt. Sam Moran: How do you feel?
- Charlie Lightfoot: I'm gonna die when I get home, but I feel pretty good.
- Capt. Sam Moran: A cute little kid came in there to audition for a job in that pigpen. And she picked on me to make a pass at her. The Madam leaned over and whispered in my ear, "More better you don't touch that kind." I looked at her. She said, "That''s your daughter, haole."
- Kittibelle Lightfoot: Sam. Sam the man. I declare. I simply refuse to faint. I've given up being carried out of bars.
- Kittibelle Lightfoot: I knew if I waited around here long enough, I'd find you.
- Capt. Sam Moran: You found me.
- Melissa Hyde: Sam, I think you oughta stay here. But this minute, a lot more, I wish to hell you'd go away.
- Capt. Sam Moran: It's too small to be a cargo ship, it's too clumsy to fish with, and the passenger accommodations would discourage an Arab camel driver.
- Kittibelle Lightfoot: Charlie used to say that if the money was right, you'd transport pink giraffes and a load of Hungarian acrobats all they way from here to New Guinea. And if the engines quit, you'd swim her there with a bowline in your teeth.
- Capt. Sam Moran: Kittibelle, I've got business in Honolulu.
- Kittibelle Lightfoot: You've got unfinished business here.
- Tate Packer: What are you foolin' with him for? He's broke, his boat's burned. He's out of it.
- Kryder: Sam Moran won't be out of it until he's dead.
- Capt. Sam Moran: I told you before, I am a vulgar specimen! And you are a sad, useless, nothing broad!
- Mim Lowry: Is there a Mrs. Moran around and about?
- Capt. Sam Moran: Well, for a girl who plays it loose, you're talking pretty square.
- Mim Lowry: Okay. So I swing. But there's something I'm trying to make my mind up about, so - so answer.
- Melissa Hyde: Oh, please, God. I'm worn out trying to make the world turn out right - the way I think it ought to be.
- Capt. Sam Moran: [singing drunkenly] Waltzin' Matilda, Waltzin' Matilda, You''ll come a-waltzin', Matilda, with me, And his ghost may be heard, As you walk beside the billabong, You'll come a-waltzin', Matilda, with..
- [speaking drunkenly]
- Capt. Sam Moran: Pero nadie quiera, Mirar tus ojos, Porque, te has muerto, Para siempre.
- Melissa Hyde: Translation please?
- Capt. Sam Moran: But no one will look into your eyes, Because you have died forever. Epitaph For A Lost Love. Very loose translation of Federico García Lorca.
- Melissa Hyde: I don't know what lost love you're rhyming to, but I haven't died yet.
- [sighs]
- Melissa Hyde: Not quite yet.
- Capt. Sam Moran: You! You are kumu. You're pesky! But kumu.
- Melissa Hyde: What does that mean?
- Capt. Sam Moran: Kumu?
- Melissa Hyde: Well, when they call a woman that?
- Capt. Sam Moran: They?
- Melissa Hyde: When a man says that to a woman, what does it mean?
- Capt. Sam Moran: When I say that to a woman, it means I think she is some hunk of woman. Kumu.
- Melissa Hyde: But pesky. Yes.
- Capt. Sam Moran: I'm Sam Moran. And what I am says I don't like people that put lumps on my head, I don't like people that burn my boat, I don't like people pushin' junk on kids for fun, and most of all, I don't like those kids dyin'. What I am says I will look for those people as long as I am able. And when and if I find them, I will hurt them!
- Mim Lowry: I was supposed to bring you to that luau. That was the deal for 500 bucks.
- Capt. Sam Moran: The things a girl has to do these days to make some bread.