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Movie Quote of the Day – The Locket, 1946 (dir. John Brahm)
Nancy: How could I ever have liked you, Norman – arrogant, suspicious, neurotic. . .
Norman: It isn’t neurotic to be jealous.
Nancy: It’s worse than neurotic to be jealous of a dead man.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, 1948 (dir. Norman Foster)
Bill: I didn’t want to be alone anymore. I don’t want to be alone now. If we go back, if we stick together, if we face it. . .do think that maybe somewhere somebody’ll listen, somebody’ll say it wasn’t our fault? Not yours anyway.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ruthless, 1947 (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Horace Woodruff Vendig: When a man is ambitious for the kind of success that I used to dream about, it’s inevitable that a lot of people are going to be hurt. He doesn’t know that. He’s too busy fighting. Then he reaches the top, whatever the top may be for him. Then he has a chance to stop, think. That’s when the pain of all those people comes back to you. He starts to feel. That’s when he starts to be a little afraid.
Movie Quote of the Day – Railroaded!, 1947 (dir. Anthony Mann)
Duke: Hey look, until we’re out of this jam, I want you to lay off that bottle. You gotta use your head.
Clara: I got sense enough to know that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Christmas Holiday, 1944 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Robert Manette: You know, sometimes when I listen to it I feel that, that there’s nothing that man is capable of that I can’t do. Then it stops and it’s over.
Abigail Martin: Oh, not for me. When I hear good music I feel, well I feel as though something had been added to my life that wasn’t there before.
Robert Manette: I’d like that. Think you can teach me?
Movie Quote of the Day – 99 River Street, 1953 (dir. Phil Karlson)
Ernie Driscoll: There are worse things than murder. You can kill someone an inch at a time.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Naked City, 1948 (dir. Jules Dassin)
Pete Backalis: I done a lot of things but I never killed nobody. . .Gonna stay drunk for a long time. . .don’t know what I’m gonna say to God when my time comes. He’s got a big heart, I’m told, but He don’t like–
Willie Garza: [knocks him over the head] Thought you were off the liquor. Liquor is bad. Weakens your character. How can a man like me trust a liar like you? I can’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – The File on Thelma Jordon, 1950 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Thelma Jordan: Tony! You scared me!
Tony Laredo: I didn’t mean to. I hate to be an eavesdropper.
Movie Quote of the Day – Killer’s Kiss, 1955 (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Vincent Rapallo: If only you could know how low and worthless I feel.
Gloria Price: I didn’t even know you had any feelings.
Movie Quote of the Day – Born To Be Bad, 1950 (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Nick Bradley: I love you so much I wish I liked you.
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