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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.
Movie Quote of the Day – Hangover Square, 1945 (dir. John Brahm)
George: This goes on and on. These songs mean nothing to me. What do I get out of it?
Netta: You could get me.
Movie Quote of the Day – Raw Deal, 1948 (dir. Anthony Mann)
Joseph Emmett Sullivan: Next time you come up, don’t wear that perfume.
Ann Martin: Why not?
Joseph Emmett Sullivan: It doesn’t help a guy’s good behavior.
Movie Quote of the Day – Human Desire, 1954 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Jeff Warren: I didn’t do it.
Vicki Buckley: Why not?
Jeff Warren: Maybe because he was drunk, because he fell. I picked him up and took him over to the dispatcher’s office. They’re trying to sober him up with coffee now. He even thought I was trying to help him.
Vicki Buckley: You couldn’t kill him. You tried and you couldn’t.
Jeff Warren: It’s all wrong Vicky. The whole thing’s been wrong from the beginning and I feel dirty.
Movie Quote of the Day – Blonde Ice, 1948 (dir. Jack Bernhard)
June: Les. . .I wonder which hangover you’ll recover from first.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Scar, 1948 (dir. Steve Sekely)
Freddie: You ran around. Good times, girls. You were special. You never followed the rules. There were no rules for you. Did you believe it? I think I wanted to see you get away with it. You were everything I wasn’t and everything I wanted to be. Everything we’d all like to be, only we know better. We don’t take the chances. We know sooner or later it always catches up with you.
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