- Stella Kirby: You haven't left me with a word to say.
- Charlie Dwyer: That's good. People talk too much anyway.
- Stella's Sailor freind: So, did you ever learn long division?
- Stella Kirby: I never even learned short division!
- Jerry Allen: [from the lyrics of "Heat Wave"] "She started the heat wave / By letting her feet wave"
- [bowdlerized from original "By letting her seat wave"]
- Davey Lane: [watching Paul Whiteman and his orchestra] Well anyway it's swell music. It's changed though. It's got a new rhythm, nice and slow.
- Alexander (Roger Grant): [cynically] Like syrup... kinda sweet and sticky.
- Davey Lane: [exasperated] Whatta ya do with a guy like that?
- Jerry Allen: Oh, just relax and put your mind on your drinking. Stop trying to maneuver him into talking business.
- Alexander (Roger Grant): Business? What's that?
- Jerry Allen: You know, the thing you do to take your mind *off* your drinking.