Rope of Sand (1949)

Burt Lancaster: Mike Davis

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• Toady : Consider the diamond itself for instance. Carbon, soot, chemically speaking. And yet the hardest of all matters. So hard, in fact, that whatever it touches must suffer: glass, steel, the human soul.

  Mike Davis : Why don't you sell your rug someplace else?

• Suzanne Renaud : I'm giving you so much trouble.

  Mike Davis : The perogative of a beautiful woman.

• Mike Davis : [to Thompson about his war experience]  I went to bed with a 75mm for three years, but now i sleep alone.

• Mike Davis : If you ever tried to get away from me, I'd follow you 'til I wore the earth smooth.

• Mike Davis : [to Thompson about his war experience]  I ent to bed with a 75mm for three years, but now i sleep alone.

• Commandant Paul Vogel : Consider this place for a minute if you will. It often reminds one of the interior of a whale's belly.

  Mike Davis : You sure get around.

• Suzanne Renaud : I like courage. What do you like Mr. Davis?

  Mike Davis : Honesty.

• Mike Davis : [Observing, in a bar, that Thompson is drinking a bit heavily]  Take it easy, fella'. You got all night.

  Thompson : I go on duty in two hours.

  Mike Davis : Well, I wouldn't drink so much.

  Thompson : You ever spent eight hours in a half-track?

  Mike Davis : Not yet.

  Thompson : Then you've never had your eyes fall out or your throat close up or your guts turn inside out from gas fumes, sand, and heat.

  Mike Davis : It's your squirrel cage. Why'd you pick it?

  Thompson : I ran a tank during the war.

  Mike Davis : I went to bed with a 75 millimeter for three years, but now I sleep alone.

  Thompson : Know of a job that pays better?