1955 · Skopia

Showing 37 quotes from 1955

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita · 1955

★ 7.0

Biography

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya · 1955

★ 5.4

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

1955

★ 5.3

Poem

I a universe of atoms an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

1955

★ 5.3

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture.

Philip C. Johnson

1955

★ 5.2

Poem

God has pity on kindergarten children. He has less pity on school children. And on grownups he has no pity at all, he leaves them alone, and sometimes they must crawl on all fours in the burning sand to reach the first-aid station covered with blood.

Yehuda Amichai

God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children · 1955

★ 5.0

Autobiography and memoir

The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Tristes Tropiques · 1955

★ 4.4

Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

The Complete Book of Cheese · 1955

★ 4.4

Novel · Fantasy

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · 1955

★ 3.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace.

Jim Stark

Rebel Without a Cause · 1955

★ 3.7

Novel

All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World, A Dance to the Music of Time · 1955

★ 3.6

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

1955

★ 3.6

Interview

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

Harry Truman

1955

★ 3.6

Essay · Newspaper · Economic literature

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The Economist · 1955

★ 3.5

Letter

It is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?

C.S. Lewis

1955

★ 3.5

Nature writing · Scientific literature

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same.

Rachel Carson

1955

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

1955

★ 3.5

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

1955

★ 3.5

Magazine

National Review... Stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

William F. Buckley

1955

★ 3.5

Play · Drama (play) · Drama · Southern gothic

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

1955

★ 2.7

Essay

My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.

James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son · 1955

★ 2.1

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

They think that I can make friends if we move. Just move, everything will be roses and sunshine.

Jim Stark

Rebel Without a Cause · 1955

★ 2.1

Letter

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

Albert Einstein

1955

★ 2.0

Novel

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Graham Greene

The Quiet American · 1955

★ 2.0

Interview · Magazine

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

1955

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Harry Truman

1955

★ 1.9

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son · 1955

★ 1.9

Political literature

Third parties are like bees. Once they have stung, they die.

Richard Hofstadter

1955

★ 1.9

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

1955

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

The Homosexual Villain · 1955

★ 1.9

Religious literature

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

1955

★ 1.9

Magazine

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Newsweek · 1955

★ 1.9

Magazine

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

1955

★ 1.9

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

Nikita Khrushchev

1955

★ 1.9

Economic literature

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

1955

★ 1.8

Magazine

By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.

Henry Fairlie

1955

★ 1.7

Poem

I think continually of those who were truly great... The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, And left the vivid air signed with their honor.

Stephen Spender

1955

★ 1.7