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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 – 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.
Movie Quote of the Day – Bury Me Dead, 1947 (dir. Bernard Vorhaus)
Barbara Carlin: Keep following the procession.
Cab Driver: Whose funeral is it anyway?
Barbara Carlin: Mine.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Sniper, 1952 (dir. Edward Dmytryk)
Police Lt. Frank Kafka: All I have to do is catch him.
Dr. James G. Kent: You’ll catch ’em, and they’ll kill ’em, and everyone will forget about it. . . that is until the next one comes along. Then it will start all over again.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Spiral Staircase, 1946 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Dr. Parry: She was just in my office last week.
Dr. Harvey: Did she pay her bill, or was this her way of getting out of it?
Dr. Parry: I don’t have enough experience to make that sort of joke.
Movie Quote of the Day – Daybreak, 1948 (dir. Compton Bennett)
Eddie: Nice picture.
Frankie: Not bad. A bit soppy.
Eddie: I don’t know.
Frankie: All that business about him falling in love with a girl’s picture. Men don’t fall in love with pictures. Not in real life, anyways.
Eddie: Not so sure about that.
Frankie: Well, I am.
Eddie: Perhaps you’ve met the wrong kind of man.
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