“- George Bailey: There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
- Uncle Billy: Uh huh. Breakfast is served; lunch is served; dinner...
- George Bailey: No no no no. Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles.”

James Stewart - George Bailey
Thomas Mitchell - Uncle Billy

“- Ann Carrington: What's that sound?
- Lillian - the Housekeeper: It's the waves. Angry waves. Day after day, night after night, they beat with savage fury against the black rocks below. For twenty years they've been calling... calling to someone who never answers.”
Carole Landis - Ann Carrington
Rafaela Ottiano - Lillian - the Housekeeper

“- Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
- Edward Creighton: It's music.”

Robert Young - Richard Blake
Dean Jagger - Edward Creighton

“Those sounds come from inside, not outside. Then only when you're concentrating, when you believe strongly in something.”

Eric Portman - Thomas Colpeper, JP

“At night! I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine.”
Holly Hunter - Ada