1946 · Skopia

Showing 54 quotes from 1946

Speech · Political speech

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

1946

★ 7.0

Essay · Political literature

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 7.0

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda · 1946

★ 7.0

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life)

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 7.0

Song · Great American songbook

There's no business like show business.

There's No Business Like Show Business · 1946

★ 6.9

Hope raises no dust.

1946

★ 6.9

There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

1946

★ 5.3

Song · Great American songbook

Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Anything You Can Do · 1946

★ 5.3

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 5.1

Film · Film noir · Crime (film) · Crime

A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

Vivian Rutledge

The Big Sleep · 1946

★ 4.8

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To Live-do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 4.4

The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek · 1946

★ 4.3

I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

1946

★ 4.2

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

You look a little older without your clothes on.

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 4.0

Essay · Political literature

To think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 3.9

Essay · Political literature

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.

1946

★ 3.8

Good prose is like a windowpane.

1946

★ 3.8

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

1946

★ 3.7

Essay · Political literature

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases—bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder—one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy... The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved.

Politics and the English Language · 1946

★ 3.7

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

1946

★ 3.7

Show 20 more of 54