Hold That Line (1952)
Leo Gorcey: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Quotes
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [regarding Sach] Followin' his nose might be a good suggestion, but I'm sure there's a shorter way.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Coach, I'm beginning to get the necklace of an idea.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Fellas, you are now students of the inferior arts, and you've just passed through portfolios of our cave of learning. Now, first class is Algebra.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : Algebra? Boy, I always wanted to go dhere. When do we leave?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Not Algers, ALGEBRA!
Butch : Algebra? What's that?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, it's a concentrated form of mathematics.
Junior : Well, what's mathematics?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Mathematics? That's arithmatic the hard way.
Chuck : Why didn't you say so in the first place?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I did say so in the first place.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : Where were YOU in the first place?
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Good mornin', fellow students and girls of the opposite sex. You're now purusin' the college's future aluminum.
Harold Lane : You mean "alumni."
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I was conjugatin' the voib.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [in the locker room after their first football practice] Sach, do you mind if I take another look at your puss just to make sure it's you?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Certainly not. Go ahead.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : All I gotta say is: that gargantuan display you gave on the field today concludes one of the most startlin' series of ambiguosities I've ever witnessed.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : And all the time I thought I was playin' football.
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[the two alums offer a thousand dollars for the boys to attend their alma mater]
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : How long to we have to go to this college for this g-note?
A.J. Billingsley : A semester.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : A siesta? Ya mean we gotta sleep t'rough it?
A.J. Billingsley : Not a siesta, a semester. Six. months.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : Six. months? That's a sentence. Be careful, Chief, I think they're cops.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't worry. I'll get ya time off for good behavior.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : Thanks.
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Coach Rowland : Okay, Mahoney, it's your show. Good luck.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Thanks. You'll never live to regret your incision.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I don't wish to sound deleterious, but what's your angle?
A.J. Billingsley : Angle?
Chuck : Yeah, yeah, the pitch.
Junior : The gimmick.
Butch : The curve.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : In plain English, what cooks?
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Uh, we might as well make the introductions delicious.
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[the boys ask to be fed]
Louie Dumbrowsky : Yeah, I'll give you something to eat. Eat your I.O.U.s. Now, go. Go. Leave me alone. Go. Go on. Go. Go.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Calm down, Louie. That's how people get septic ulcers.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [if] That thing had a handle on it, I could have handled it a little more handily.