Night Song (1947)

Hoagy Carmichael: Chick

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Quotes 

• Cathy : Am I late?

  Chick : You're a woman.

• Miss Willey : My father always said a fishing rod had a hook at one end... and an idiot at the other.

  Chick : That's only when your old man went fishing.

• Miss Willey : [after being served the fresh-caught fish]  I think I'll fix some hamburger.

  Dan : Hamburger?

  Chick : You don't like fish?

  Cathy : She loves fish.

  Miss Willey : Not this particular fish. I can't eat it.

  Chick : Now what the matter with this fish? It's good fish.

  Dan : I caught it.

  Chick : And I cooked it.

  Miss Willey : But I met this fish this afternoon. I saw him swimming. He was alive and happy. I was an accessory before the fact of his death.

  Chick : She's kidding, of course.

  Miss Willey : This morning he had his life before him. Now he's lying on my plate, coated with cracker crumbs. I'm sorry, but I can't eat him.

  Chick : How can you eat that potata? It was torn out of the ground, peeled, and boiled before your very eyes.

  Dan : What about hamburger?

  Chick : Yes, you eat beef, don't you? They slaughter beef.

  Miss Willey : I don't witness the execution. I don't spend the afternoon with a cow.

  Chick : [Chick contemplates the fish on his fork, and hesitates to eat it] 

• Chick : I don't get you. You've got a jillion dollars and a pretty boyfriend. What do you keep slumming after him for?

  Cathy : The music. I can't get it out of my head. I think its fine.

• Chick : So, you're Miss Willey.

  Miss Willey : You sound as if you're looking at the Washington Monument for the first time.

• Dan : What she look like?

  Chick : Oh, not too big, not too small, not too bad to look at, not too bad to be around.

• Chick : [Greeting Dan]  Hello, Mother, I'm home.

  Dan : You shouldn't stay out so late, son. Cigarettes and loss of sleep is bad for your wind. You won't be able to blow your horn when you're a big boy.

  Chick : Eh.

• Chick : How'd it go tonight?

  Dan : Oh, Delius was a little ragged; but, the spaghetti was perfect!

• Chick : What do you think of this blind man's bluff?

  Miss Willey : I haven't thought for 20 years.

• Chick : She certainly went for that music. So, she has brains to go with the diamonds!

  Dan : Fall in love on your own time.

• Chick : So, you're blind; but, Schubert's dead! It isn't the guy, it's the music. Can you see what I mean?

  Dan : No, I can't see.

• Chick : [singing]  Who beat her up till she was dead, And left poor me in a jam...

• Chick : [singing]  Case dismissed, It's self defense, And I'm mighty glad she's dead.

• Chick : What do you say? Do you say that Mallory the millionaire glamour girl is taking you where the woodbine twineth?