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People spend their lives building castles in the air and yet they never try to make 'em realities.

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6 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:26:55 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- He suddenly quit business one day. Started up the elevator, came right down again and never went back. He said he wasn't having any fun.

- Well, that's exactly what I mean.

- And Mother. You know why Mother writes plays? Because two years ago a typewriter was delivered to the house by mistake!

- Well, now I know why you're so different!

- You know, I think that your family is the answer to what's wrong with the world.

- People spend their lives building castles in the air and yet they never try to make 'em realities.

- You know, in school, another fellow and I had an idea... Oh, uh, do you mind if I sort of talk about myself?

- I'd love it.

- Well, this fellow and I had an idea how to utilize the energy in grass. You know, grass... just like this.

- Did you know that every blade of grass has an energetic force that has never been used for anything?

- No.

- Oh, yes.

- Well, we worked on it all the time. Every spare moment. All night sometimes. We'd get so excited, we'd forget to sleep.

- And... well... then we left school. He's selling automobiles and I'm in some mysterious thing called Banking.

[...]

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You Can't Take It with You (1939) Sound Clip

You Can't Take It with You (1939)Quotes from You Can't Take It with You (1939), Lux Radio Theatre play broadcast in 1939, based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Actors: Fay Wray (Alice), Robert Cummings (Tony), Walter Connolly (Grandpa Vanderhof), Edward Arnold (Mr. Kirby), Lou Merrill (Kolenkhov), Sally Payne (Essie),

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