Impact (1949)

Brian Donlevy: Walter Williams

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• Walter Williams : Doing the right thing never works out. I know. In this world, you turn the other cheek, and you get hit with a lug wrench.

• Mrs. King : When you trust folks, you trust 'em, and you give 'em a chance to work out things the way that seems right to them.

  Walter Williams : How can one little woman be so big?

• Marsha Peters : It's wonderful the way tools seem to come alive in your hands. You seem to sort of come alive, too, as though you got real pleasure out of working with them.

  Walter Williams : I do. When you're doing a job with them, you can't think of anything else.

  Marsha Peters : Bill, if somethings bothering you, why don't you get rid of it?

  Walter Williams : What would you prescribe, doctor?

  Marsha Peters : Amputation for that stupid chip on your shoulder.

• Walter Williams : Life? A barren frustrated boyhood. A marriage to a woman who accepted my love and despised me so thoroughly she resorted to murder?

• Irene Williams : What really happened this morning? All I got out of Della was that you stomped out of the office with blood in your eye and were back in no time with canary feathers in your mouth.

  Walter Williams : Oh, I clipped those bird's wings, but short.

• Walter Williams : Nothing in the whole world smells as sweet as you do, Duchess.

  Irene Williams : I certainly don't feel sweet. I'm as grouchy as an old bear.

• Walter Williams : To quote my wife, "I like monograms on things. It shows they belong to me." Unquote.

• Walter Williams : This is no kind of work for a girl.

  Marsha Peters : Somebody has to do it, if I want to stay in business. And I want to.

• Marsha Peters : As they say, you can take the boy out of the country, but...

  Walter Williams : A rolling stone gathers no moss.

  Marsha Peters : It has to stop rolling sometime, doesn't it?

• Walter Williams : Ah, buck up, Boss. Tomorrow's another day.

• Marsha Peters : What have I done to you? If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be here.

  Walter Williams : If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be.

• Walter Williams : Our last chance for chow for a while. How about it?

  Jim Torrance : No thanks. I grabbed a hamburger while I was waiting for you. Can still taste the harness.