Mark Williams Quotes in Objective, Burma! (1945)

Mark Williams: What if my parachute doesn't open?

Capt. Nelson: Then you'll be the first one on the ground.

Mark Williams: Your folks are gonna get quite a kick out of reading about you.

Lt. Sid Jacobs: [Taken aback] You mean all that stuff will be in the Schenectady paper?

Mark Williams: Sure. You don't mind, do you?

Lt. Sid Jacobs: Well, heck, no! What do you know, it's a small world, isn't it?

Mark Williams: Yeah, and it's getting smaller. If only more folks back home would realize that Crane Street, Schenectady runs all the way to Burma, this would be the last war.

Lt. Sid Jacobs: Amen.

Mark Williams: [Aghast and outraged at the atrocities] Hey, I've been a newspaperman for thirty years. I thought I'd seen or read about everything that one man can do to another from the torture chambers of the Middle Ages to the gang wars and lynchings of the day. But this... this is different! This was done in cold blood... by people who... who claim to be civilized. Civilzed? They're degenerate immoral idiots! Stinkin' little savages! Wipe 'em out, I say! Wipe 'em out! Wipe 'em off the face of the Earth! Wipe 'em off the face of the earth!

[Walking offscreen]

Mark Williams: The bastards! God!

Mark Williams: Why didn't you join the Navy?

Capt. Nelson: I can walk better than I can swim, brother.

Mark Williams: Come on, come on!

David Reed: You talking to me, Mark, or something out there?

Mark Williams: Both, David. They won't believe it back home, none of them. I wouldn't have believed it myself, sitting out here waiting for some monster to appear. That's why we've got to take him.

David Reed: Why won't they believe, Mark?

Mark Williams: Because we deal with known quantities, with knowledge we've accumulated up to now.

David Reed: We've just begun to learn about the water and its secrets, just as we've only touched on outer space. We don't entirely rule out the possibility that there might be some form of life on another planet, and why not some entirely different form of life in a world we already know is inhabited by millions of living creatures?

Mark Williams: We must have the proof!

Carl Maia: Well, now we have a lab, such as it is.

David Reed: Let's hope we have some use for it.

Mark Williams: I'll be disappointed if we don't. Assuming, of course, Dr. Maia's facts are well-founded.

David Reed: Dr. Maia's a scientist, not a fortune-teller! How can he guarantee anything?

Kay Lawrence: Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Mark Williams: I didn't mean it as any personal criticism, Doctor, it's just that I also look forward to success.