Clark: When are you going to be able to put your past behind you?
Lex: Look at the stars, Clark. Some of them have been extinguished for thousands of years, but their light is only reaching us now. The past is always influencing the present. I can't change that. All I can do is try to understand it.

Chloe: Will you come and visit me?
Clark: Yeah, of course! I would never pass up the opportunity to see you in your natural habitat.

Clark: So you've had a night to sleep on it, what are you going to do with Lex's check?
Jonathan: Well, I might be stubborn, but I'm not blind.

Jonathan: When did you get so wise?
Clark: Ask my dad.
Jonathan: I'll sleep on it.

Chloe leaves for a day and the Torch goes down in flames.

Clark

Clark: Uh, Chloe. I was... do you have plans for the Spring Formal?
Chloe: Not at the moment.
Clark: I was hoping, uh, I was hoping you'd go with me... as my date.
Chloe: I would love to, Clark. Now I'm gonna go before my good karma runs out.
Clark: Chloe. I'm sorry I didn't ask sooner.
Chloe: It's okay. It was worth the wait.

Nixon: It seems you've given out gifts to the competition. Now, we had an arrangement. You give me stories, I give you information. Now, what did Carrie Castle do for you that I couldn't?
Lex: She gave me a pretty mean shiatsu massage.

Lionel: (reading) "I celebrate myself, and what I assume, you shall assume..."
Lex: "...for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
Lionel: That sounds like a description of family.
Lex: Not ours.

Clark: It's like you find out this secret and it colors everything. I just can't believe I never saw it before.
Lana: Sometimes the right person can be right in front of your eyes and you never even know it.

Clark: Look, I know I screwed up, but why is Chloe having a breakdown?
Pete: You're not the most observant person in the world, are you?

Lex: Clark, love isn't about playing it safe, it's about risks. Unless you're willing to put yourself out there, you'll never know.
Clark: Have you ever been in love before?
Lex: I've only loved two women in my life. One died and the other betrayed me.

Lex: (seeing Clark reading a book, amused) 'Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus'?
Clark: I'm trying to get an insight into the female psyche.
Lex: I seriously doubt you'll find it in here.

Smallville Season 1 Quotes

Pete: Statistical fact: If Clark moved any slower he'd be extinct.

Jonathan: I know this has gotta be really hard for you. But you gotta just hang in there like we promised.
Clark: I'm sick of "hanging in there." All I want to do is go through high school without being a total loser.