Desk Set (1957)

Dina Merrill: Sylvia Blair

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Quotes 

• Sylvia Blair : [telephone rings]  Reference department, Miss Blair. Oh, yes, we've looked that up for you, and there are certain poisons which leave no trace, but it's network policy not to mention them on our programs.

• Ruthie Saylor : What do you suppose he's doing all that measuring for? Do you think we're being redecorated?

  Sylvia Blair : Does he look like an interior decorator to you?

  Peg Costello : No! He looks like one of those men who's just suddenly switched to vodka!

• Ruthie Saylor : Are you sure you want this mistletoe right over the door?

  Sylvia Blair : Certainly! Then if anything good drifts in we can grab him!

  Peg Costello : Why don't you wear it in your hair?

  Sylvia Blair : Along about 3 o'clock I may.

• Sylvia Blair : What do you suppose it'll be like here next Christmas when we're gone? Do you think EMERAC will throw a party?

  Ruthie Saylor : Oh, don't talk that way. It's bad luck to talk like that. It's Christmas!

  Bunny Watson : It's Christmas.

  Peg Costello : Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine.

• Ruthie Saylor : Maybe we're getting that air conditioning, finally.

  Sylvia Blair : Hmmm, that figures. This is November.

• Ruthie Saylor : What is the company policy here for Christmas?

  Sylvia Blair : Anything goes, as long as you don't lock the door.

• Richard Sumner : Will you hold this tape for me please?

  [hands Miss Blair the end of a tape measure] 

  Sylvia Blair : 35-24-35.

  Richard Sumner : And very nice too. I mean, hold it against the wall.

• Peg Costello : this may be the last Christmas party we're going to throw here, so let's make it a Lulu!

  [brings out a bottle of alcohol] 

  Sylvia Blair : Before lunch?

  Peg Costello : Before lunch, for lunch, after lunch.