1939 · Skopia

Showing 73 quotes from 1939

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

There's no place like home.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 8.6

Film · Epic (film) · Historical romance (film) · Epic · Historical romance

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind · 1939

★ 8.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 7.7

Song · Film

Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 7.3

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

I'm melting, melting! Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

The Wicked Witch of the West

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 7.1

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

The Wicked Witch of the West

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 7.1

Novel · Modernist literature

They lived und laughed ant loved end left.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake · 1939

★ 7.1

Song · Film

Follow the yellow brick road.

The Munchkins

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 7.0

Radio broadcast · Speech · Political speech

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

1939

★ 7.0

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 7.0

Play

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T.S. Eliot

1939

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

1939

★ 6.9

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of OZ · 1939

★ 6.5

I am interested in the future because I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

1939

★ 6.0

Speech · Political speech

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest...of his head.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1939

★ 5.3

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka · 1939

★ 5.3

Film · Epic (film) · Historical romance (film) · Epic · Historical romance

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind · 1939

★ 3.9

Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small-we haven't time-and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

1939

★ 3.7

Novel

Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

William Faulkner

1939

★ 3.7

Film · Epic (film) · Historical romance (film) · Epic · Historical romance

No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind · 1939

★ 3.7

Play

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

1939

★ 3.6

Children's book · Children's literature

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

The King's Stilts · 1939

★ 3.6

Novel · Detective fiction

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep · 1939

★ 3.6

Poem

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

W.H. Auden

1939

★ 3.6

Poem

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

W.H. Auden

September 1,1939 · 1939

★ 3.6

Film · Political (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Political · Comedy drama

Well, as I said, this is a man's world, Jeff, and you gotta check your ideals outside the door like you do your others.

Senator Joseph Paine

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · 1939

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.

Doc Josiah Boone

Stagecoach · 1939

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got.

Bartender

Stagecoach · 1939

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

The Scarecrow

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 3.6

There is no easy walk-over to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire.

Jawaharlal Nehru

1939

★ 3.5

Poem

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren

1939

★ 3.5

Newspaper

I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I ain't a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks want to fight. Give them the guns.

Woody Guthrie

People's World · 1939

★ 3.5

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine

Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations... Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times.

Clement Greenberg

1939

★ 3.5

Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

Georges Bernanos

1939

★ 3.5

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

1939

★ 3.5

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer to that would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." Therein lies the difficulty.

Aaron Copland

What to Listen for in Music · 1939

★ 3.4

The Law is the killy-loo bird of the sciences. The killy-loo, of course, was the bird that insisted on flying backward because it didn't care where it was going but was mightily interested in where it had been... Only The Law, inexorably devoted to all its most ancient principles and precedents, makes a vice of innovation and a virtue of hoariness.

Fred Rodell

1939

★ 3.4

Novel

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Thomas Mann

Lotte in Weimar · 1939

★ 3.4

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