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Movie Quote of the Day – Blackout, 1954 (dir. Terence Fisher)
Casey Morrow: The last time Miss Opportunity knocked I let her in.
Phyllis Brunner: Oh? What happened?
Casey Morrow: Now I haven’t even got a door.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Woman’s Secret, 1949 (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Luke Jordan: You said something about “Ever since you came to New York.” Where do you come from?
Susan Caldwell: Azusa. Azusa, California.
Luke Jordan: Azusa?
Susan Caldwell: It’s kind of a made-up word. Different letters. They put them together. Everything from A to Z. USA. AZUSA.
Luke Jordan: I still don’t get it. What does the USA stand for?
Susan Caldwell: United States of America. Everybody knows that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ride The Pink Horse, 1947 (dir. Robert Montgomery)
Lucky Gagin: I’m gonna cut you in.
Poncho: Cut me in?
Lucky Gagin: Five grand.
Poncho: Grand?
Lucky Gagin: Five thousand bucks.
Poncho: You got that much money?
Lucky Gagin: I’m gonna get it.
Poncho: Yeah, lots of people gonna get lots of things, but they don’t.
Movie Quote of the Day – Desperate, 1947 (dir. Anthony Mann)
Walt: You could’ve phoned, it would’ve saved time.
Pete: Yeah, but you can’t collect money on the telephone
Movie Quote of the Day – Home for the Holidays, 1995 (dir. Jodie Foster)
Claudia: Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. That’s what the day’s supposed to be all about, right? Torture.
Adele: That and giving thanks that we don’t have to go through this for another year. Except we do, because those bastards went and put Christmas right in the middle, just to punish us.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Upturned Glass, 1947 (dir. Lawrence Huntington)
Emma Wright: Don’t you even remember the people you meet?
Dr. Michael Joyce: I remember the important ones. The ones I want to remember.
Movie Quote of the Day – Whispering City, 1947 (dir. Fyodor Otsep)
Mary Roberts: Oh, kitty! You better lend me one of your nine lives. You just frightened me out of one of mine.
Movie Quote of the Day – Green For Danger, 1946 (dir. Sidney Gilliat)
Dr. Barney Barnes: What is the matter with you these days, Freddi, I simply took it for granted you were going with me. That’s all.
Nurse Frederica ‘Freddi’ Linley: I don’t like being taken for granted.
Movie Quote of the Day – Guest In The House, 1944 (dir. John Brahm, Lewis Milestone)
Evelyn: Things can’t always be the same. Or people.
Movie Quote of the Day – Born To Kill, 1947 (dir. Robert Wise)
Sam Wilde: Is somebody meeting you when we get off the ferry?
Helen Brent: No. I’m going to pick up a cab.
Sam Wilde: Swell. We’ll share one.
Helen Brent: I’m afraid not. We go in different directions.
Sam Wilde: That’s where you’re wrong. We’re going in the same direction, you and I.
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