1937

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 7.3

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin

1937

★ 7.0

Film · Animation (film) · Fantasy (film) · Animation · Fantasy

And then he will carry me away to his castle, where we will live happily ever after.

Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · 1937

★ 7.0

Film · Animation (film) · Fantasy (film) · Animation · Fantasy

Now make a wish and take a bite.

Witch

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · 1937

★ 7.0

Film · Animation (film) · Fantasy (film) · Animation · Fantasy

When hearts are high the time will fly, so whistle while you work.

Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · 1937

★ 6.3

Essay · Philosophical literature

As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

1937

★ 5.2

Personal journal

Electric flesh-arrows...traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Anais Nin

1937

★ 5.2

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Lewis Allan

1937

★ 5.1

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 3.9

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937

★ 3.9

Autobiography and memoir

Eleanor Roosevelt

1937

★ 3.8

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not · 1937

★ 3.8

Novel · Fantasy

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit · 1937

★ 3.7

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

1937

★ 3.7

Letter

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

1937

★ 3.7

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 3.7

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

1937

★ 3.7

In every land there are always at work forces that drive men apart and forces that draw men together. In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people.

I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees. Asked the Lord above, "Have mercy, save poor Bob if you please."

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937

★ 3.7

Song · Blues

Robert Johnson

Cross Road Blues · 1937

★ 3.7

Newspaper

I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Beatrice Kaufman

1937

★ 3.6

Speech

The artist must take sides.

Paul Robeson

1937

★ 3.6

Film · Animation (film) · Fantasy (film) · Animation · Fantasy

Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They're full of wicked wiles!

Grumpy

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · 1937

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Aldous Huxley

1937

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Of that freedom one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

Palko v. Connecticut · 1937

★ 3.5

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

1937

★ 3.5

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

1937

★ 3.5

Song · Musical

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly; They told Marconi Wireless was a phony- It's the same old cry!

Ira Gershwin

1937

★ 3.5

Economic literature

One of the main effects…of orthodox traditional economics was…a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

Joan Robinson

1937

★ 3.5

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937

★ 2.1

Essay

Albert Camus

Love of Life · 1937

★ 2.0

We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937

★ 2.0

Letter

Amelia Earhart

1937

★ 1.9

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

Dorothy Parker

1937

★ 1.9

Historical literature

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

Le Corbusier

1937

★ 1.9