1974 · Skopia

Showing 28 quotes from 1974

Film · Crime (film) · Epic (film) · Crime · Epic

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael Corleone

The Godfather: Part II · 1974

★ 7.8

Autobiography and memoir

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 6.9

Speech · Political speech

Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men.

Gerald Ford

1974

★ 6.9

It's hard to be humble when you are as great as I am.

Muhammad Ali

1974

★ 5.5

Play

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

Tom Stoppard

1974

★ 5.3

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know—morons.

Jim "Waco Kid"

Blazing Saddles · 1974

★ 5.3

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Lawrence Walsh

Chinatown · 1974

★ 5.3

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · 1974

★ 5.0

Speech · Commencement address

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

1974

★ 4.6

I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

Harry Truman

1974

★ 4.4

Press conference

I have wrassled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, I woulda handcuffed lightnin', throw thunder in jail.

Muhammad Ali

1974

★ 3.8

Film · Crime (film) · Epic (film) · Crime · Epic

Your country ain't your blood, you remember that.

Sonny Corleone

The Godfather: Part II · 1974

★ 3.8

Novel

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said · 1974

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

A minimal state, limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified; that any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

Robert Nozick

Anarchy, State, and Utopia · 1974

★ 3.5

Poem

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.

Shel Silverstein

Listen to the Mustn'ts · 1974

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism-victimless collecting, as it were... In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Susan Sontag

Melancholy Objects · 1974

★ 3.5

Newspaper

But sport doesn’t build character....sports reveals character.

Heywood Broun

The Evening Press · 1974

★ 3.5

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything.

Noah Cross

Chinatown · 1974

★ 3.5

Magazine

Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

1974

★ 3.5

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

To tell you the truth, I lied a little.

J.J. Gittes

Chinatown · 1974

★ 2.2

Press conference

Fast, fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch was in the bed before the room was dark.

Muhammad Ali

1974

★ 2.1

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Barbara Jordan

1974

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject.

Walker Evans

1974

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Hedley Lamarr

Blazing Saddles · 1974

★ 1.9

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Noah Cross

Chinatown · 1974

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

1974

★ 1.1