What am I doing? This is a very interesting situation! (This line was repeated by Jimmy in the 1940 film "No Time for Comedy"). Where are you? Mary: Over here in the hydrangea bushes.
I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long. Then, I'm comin' back here and go to college and see what they know. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. Mary: What'd you wish, George? George: Well, not just one wish. Pop, I think I'll get dressed and go over to Harry's party. Oh, did you hear that, Annie? Annie: I heard it. George: Pop, you want a shock? I think you're a great guy. George: You see what I mean, don't you, Pop? Pop: This town is no place for any man unless he's willing to crawl to Potter. I just feel like if I don't get away, I'd bust. I wish I felt.But I've been hoarding pennies like a miser in order to.Most of my friends have already finished college. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office. Pop: You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important.
I want to do something big and something important.
I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office.Oh, I'm sorry Pop, I didn't mean that, but this business of nickels and dimes and spending all your life trying to figure out how to save three cents on a length of pipe.I'd go crazy.
Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings. Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence! Get me back! Get me back, I don't care what happens to me! Get me back to my wife and kids! Help me, Clarence, please! Please! I wanna live again.Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way.Now, we can get through this thing all right. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicking and he's not. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments? You didn't lose your house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack? Here, Ed. And because he wants to keep you living in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. If Potter gets hold of this Building and Loan, there'll never be another decent house built in this town.