Out of the Fog (1941)

Thomas Mitchell: Jonah Goodwin

Quotes 

• Olaf Johnson : She's 37 today. She wants me to go to her birthday party - her 37th birthday... so she says.

  Jonah Goodwin : 37! She's fifteen minutes younger than the Roman Empire.

• Olaf Johnson : Now, Jonah, please - will you throw away the wallet?

  Jonah Goodwin : For your sake, Olaf.

  Officer Magruder : [interrupting as Jonah starts to throw]  Make a wish as you throw it, Jonah - and while you're throwin' that old hunk of bait away, make a wish for me. See you later, boys.

• [last lines] 

  Jonah Goodwin : You know, Stella, off the coast of Cuba in the Gulf Stream, where the sun shines eleven months of the year, they catch fish that weigh from seven hundred to a thousand pounds. Fish with spears in their noses!

  Stella Goodwin : Swordfish, papa. They call 'em swordfish.

  Jonah Goodwin : That's it, Stella - swordfish!

• Jonah Goodwin : What's there so wonderful about me? I'm just an ordinary person, like - like everybody else around here. Like Olaf, like George, like Magruder. Yes, Stella - your father's just an ordinary man. And his daughter? She's an ordinary woman. But there's one thing ordinary people can do just as well as anybody: They can love each other like - like millionaires or poets. That's why it's not such a terrible thing to be an ordinary person, Stella.

• Jonah Goodwin : If you lived in the jungle, and a tiger stole your food and ran off with your children, what would you do?

  Olaf Johnson : I don't know.

  Jonah Goodwin : You'd kill him.

• Olaf Johnson : How long can the ocean hide a man, Jonah?

  Jonah Goodwin : Could hide him 'til the last fish is caught.