Desk Set (1957)

Sue Randall: Ruthie Saylor

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• Ruthie Saylor : What do you suppose he's doing all that measuring for? Do you think we're being redecorated?

  Sylvia Blair : Does he look like an interior decorator to you?

  Peg Costello : No! He looks like one of those men who's just suddenly switched to vodka!

• Ruthie Saylor : Are you sure you want this mistletoe right over the door?

  Sylvia Blair : Certainly! Then if anything good drifts in we can grab him!

  Peg Costello : Why don't you wear it in your hair?

  Sylvia Blair : Along about 3 o'clock I may.

• Sylvia Blair : What do you suppose it'll be like here next Christmas when we're gone? Do you think EMERAC will throw a party?

  Ruthie Saylor : Oh, don't talk that way. It's bad luck to talk like that. It's Christmas!

  Bunny Watson : It's Christmas.

  Peg Costello : Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine.

• Ruthie Saylor : Maybe we're getting that air conditioning, finally.

  Sylvia Blair : Hmmm, that figures. This is November.

• Bunny Watson : On the Shores of Gitche Gumee.

  Ruthie Saylor : James Whitcomb Riley.

  Bunny Watson : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, bless him.

• Ruthie Saylor : What is the company policy here for Christmas?

  Sylvia Blair : Anything goes, as long as you don't lock the door.

• Ruthie Saylor : [on the phone]  I called earlier about that little black velvet strapless you had in the window...