Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut i...s a long way from Edward R. Murrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer. T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough. Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev. Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here. Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman... of that sort. T.R. Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley? Mr. Beardsley: I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we Devlin? Devlin: Not at all. Not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sir, sitting in Washington playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lora May: Did you ever stop to think, Porter, that in over three years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fu...n. Porter: To you, I'm a cash register. You can't love a cash register. Lora May: And I'm part of your inventory. You can't love that either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Porter: O.K., O.K., you win. I'll marry you. How 'bout it? Lora May: Thanks. For nuthin'.... Porter: Now what kind of an answer is that? Lora May: I don't know. I just felt like it, that's all. Porter: We'll do all right, kid. We're startin' out where it takes most marriages years to get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.--requiescat in pace--you know. That seems to me the most beautiful ex...pression--I like it much better than 'He is a jolly good fellow,' which is simply rowdy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, n...arcotic effect, tempting him to doze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Macduff. What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter. Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, ...it provokes, and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go... the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »