1959 · Skopia

Showing 29 quotes from 1959

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West

1959

★ 7.0

Poem

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature in repose, distinct.

Denise Levertov

Pleasures · 1959

★ 5.2

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

1959

★ 5.2

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Barzun

The House of Intellect · 1959

★ 5.1

Song · Protest music · Folk music

We will all go together when we go, All suffused with an incandescent glow.

Tom Lehrer

We Will All Go Together When We Go · 1959

★ 5.1

Play

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

1959

★ 4.3

Comic strip

I love mankind…it's people I can't stand!!

Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts · 1959

★ 3.7

Film · Spy (film) · Thriller (film) · Spy · Thriller

The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.

Roger Thornhill

North by Northwest · 1959

★ 3.7

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea?

Sextus

Ben-Hur · 1959

★ 3.6

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.

Quintus Arrius

Ben-Hur · 1959

★ 3.6

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

There's a saying, every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1959

★ 3.6

Letter

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

John Steinbeck

1959

★ 3.5

Novel

In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.

Gunter Grass

The Tin Drum · 1959

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Karl Popper

The Logic of Scientific Discovery · 1959

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

Moss Hart

1959

★ 3.4

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

Men who wear glasses are so much more gentle, sweet, and helpless.

Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

Some Like it Hot · 1959

★ 2.3

Film · Song · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

Some Like it Hot · 1959

★ 2.3

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

By condemning without hesitation an old friend, I shall be feared.

Messala

Ben-Hur · 1959

★ 2.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me!

Joe (Some Like it Hot)

Some Like it Hot · 1959

★ 2.0

Letter

When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words.

Flannery O'Connor

1959

★ 1.9

Poem · Magazine

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Ogden Nash

1959

★ 1.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

They don't care. Just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Joe (Some Like it Hot)

Some Like it Hot · 1959

★ 1.9

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.

Andre Gide

1959

★ 1.9

Political literature

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Christabel Pankhurst

1959

★ 1.9

Magazine

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

1959

★ 1.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno

1959

★ 1.9

Novel · Science fiction

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

1959

★ 1.9

Interview

The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of rich people.

Joan Miro

1959

★ 1.9

Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Paul Klee

1959

★ 0.9