- 'The Wreck' Loomis: [holding an iron] Which way do you want the pleats turned?
- Ruth Sherwood: Toward Mecca.
- Ruth Sherwood: [reading cereal box] Nature's Broom. Gonna have breakfast all day long...
- Eileen Sherwood: Oh, but it's good for you. It's roughage.
- Ruth Sherwood: I like to vary it with a little smoothage, like a steak!
- Ruth Sherwood: [on Grandma buying her a new typewriter] Oh, gee darling, how can i ever repay you?
- Grandma Sherwood: Aw, it's simple, just write another 'Gone With The Wind'.
- Ruth Sherwood: It's a cinch!
- Ruth Sherwood: [reading from the sample package of 'Natures Broom', a fiber cereal] "Delicious with strawberries and cream". Humph, what isn't?
- Ruth Sherwood: I'm awful glad you came, officer.
- Officer Lonigan: So you're new in this neighborhood, ain't ya?
- Ruth Sherwood: Yeah, we just moved in today.
- Officer Lonigan: Well, if you're smart, you'll move out tomorrow.
- Ruth Sherwood: [frustrated] Well, for a place with a bad location and no neon sign, we're doing a whale of a business!
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- Jimmy: [at the office of the Columbus Courier, watching Ruth type a theater review of Eileen's performance] Your kid sister?
- Ruth Sherwood: My sister Eileen.
- Jimmy: What's this "Doll's House"? A kids' show, with fairies?
- Ruth Sherwood: It's a well-known classic.
- Appopolous: Look - life passes up and down in front of you like a regular parade. What more could a young person with a typewriter want?
- Ruth Sherwood: [There is a loud explosion] What was that?
- Appopolous: A little blasting - the new subway.
- Ruth Sherwood: You mean they're blasting right underneath us?
- Appopolous: What are you worrying about - those engineers know how much dynamite to use.
- Eileen Sherwood: But, does it go on all the time?
- Appopolous: Oh no, they knock off at midnight and they don't start again till six in the morning.
- Ruth Sherwood: Six in the morning?
- Appopolous: Listen. In New York you live either a. over a subway or b. where they're building a subway or c. you don't live in New York.
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