Butch Engle: Give 'em time, kid; they'll catch on. You know your folks'll get used to you, and you'll get used to them. Then everything'll settle down nicely. Unless we have another war. Then none of us have to worry because we'll all be blown to bits the first day. So cheer up, huh?


--Hoagy Carmichael (as Butch Engle) in The Best Years of Our Lives

Logan Stuart: Do you make it a habit of spying on people?
Hi Linnet: No, but I got a habit of observing people.
Logan Stuart: Is that all you have to do?
Hi Linnet: Well, Logan, you got a big store and no time. And I got a little store and lots of time.


--Hoagy Carmichael (as Hi Linnet) in Canyon Passage

Attendant: I'm afraid it's pneumonia. Think you oughtta get him to a hospital.
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby: Well, why didn't you send him to a hospital?
Attendant: We didn't have any authorization.
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby: You got it now.
[takes pen and paper out; writes; hands paper to attendant]
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby: Get an ambulance; I'm taking him out of here. And call these numbers - tell 'em to get down here right away.
Attendant: [looking at paper] Mrs Martin - is that his wife?
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby: Yes.
Attendant: And the other one?
Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby: She's *not* his wife.


--Hoagy Carmichael (as Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby) in Young Man with a Horn