Movie-Sounds.org > Old Movie Quotes > Knock on Any Door (1949)

An island of outrage. Work and sleep and eat by command. Pray by command.

10 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:19.174 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 7 bucks? Gee.

(Police siren wails, tires screech )

- The stolen car led Nick Romano and Jimmy to reform school.

- The word reform... means to remove doubt, to reclaim, to improve. It can also mean degrade and brutalize.

- There are reformatories with modern methods, where delinquents are looked upon as individuals with individual problems. And then there are others, like the one Nick was sent to, where life is based on one law: fear.

- An island of outrage. Work and sleep and eat by command. Pray by command.

- Talk to your neighbor while you're eating, you're whipped until you bleed.

- Show up a minute late for an assembly, solitary confinement.

- Grab a smoke after hours, you wind up at a burlap party.

- Look over the gray fence at the faraway hills. Look through the bars at the free night without hope, except someday, get out, get even.

- Yes, I said burlap party. A method for which this particular institution was famous.

[...]

Top rated lines from this movie

Knock on any door... And you may find Nick Romano.
I'm gonna retire. Where's Arabia? -I don't know. I haven't got my atlas.
No! Nothing's gonna slow me down. From here on in, I travel in a hurry. What I used to say still goes. Live fast, die young... And have a good-looking corpse.
Want to talk to you back there. -Why not? Talk is cheap. -And he's got plenty of cheap talk.
Boy, what a life. You and your friends sure know how to live. -Yeah. -Maybe I don't, huh?
Knock on Any Door (1949) Sound Clip

Knock on Any Door posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Knock on Any Door, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Andrew Morton), John Derek (Nick Romano)

[Amazon link] #ad

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Thumb Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
526 Sounds / Quotes
Thumb The Hunt for Red October
940 Sounds / Quotes
Thumb Black Belt Jones (1974)
458 Sounds / Quotes
Thumb The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
478 Sounds / Quotes
Thumb DuckTales: The Movie (1990)
563 Sounds / Quotes

Poll

You are using film sounds:







 Results

MOVIE-SOUNDS.ORG - Download and listen to lines and quotes from movies which can be used as ringtones. A movie phrases and sayings search engine.

 

All the movie sound clips on this site are just short samples from the original sources, in mp3, wav or other popular audio formats. The copyrighted, unlicensed movie samples are shorter in comparison to the original movie. Samples do not exceed 10 seconds or less than 1% of the length of the original movie, which is shorter. All the sounds retain their original copyright as owned by their respective movie production companies (read the full disclaimer and disclosures)

Contact | Privacy policy