1975 · Skopia

Showing 39 quotes from 1975

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 7.1

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

1975

★ 7.0

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

1975

★ 6.9

Song · Rock music

We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run (song) · 1975

★ 5.5

Song · Pop music

Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too.

Fleetwood Mac

Landslide · 1975

★ 5.5

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish · 1975

★ 5.3

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Boris Grushenko

Love and Death · 1975

★ 5.2

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

William Safire

1975

★ 5.1

Western (film) · Western

I know enough about men to steer clear of them.

Eula

Rooster Cogburn · 1975

★ 3.9

Autobiography and memoir

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 3.8

Autobiography and memoir

The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 3.7

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God.

Archie Bunker

All in the Family · 1975

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 3.6

One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 3.6

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Woody Allen

1975

★ 3.6

Scientific literature

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

1975

★ 3.5

Interview

The desire to create is one of the strongest urges a human spirit can contain. It will always break through.

Tennessee Williams

1975

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Dennis

Monty Python and the Holy Grail · 1975

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature

I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Roald Dahl

Danny, the Champion of the World · 1975

★ 3.5

Speech

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

Adrienne Rich

1975

★ 3.5

Interview · Magazine

Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

Playboy Magazine · 1975

★ 3.5

Political literature

All political power is primarily an illusion... Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud, that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

Jimmy Breslin

1975

★ 3.4

Song · Rock music

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see, Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me.

Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody · 1975

★ 2.9

Autobiography and memoir

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

It's just a flesh wound.

The Black Knight

Monty Python and the Holy Grail · 1975

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television—you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt

The Life of the Mind · 1975

★ 1.9

Interview

I don't talk about success, I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Imogen Cunningham

1975

★ 1.9

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 1.9

Interview · TV program

Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.

Milton Friedman

1975

★ 1.9

Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh, erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it?

Dr. Frank-N-Furter

The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 1975

★ 1.9

Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space and meaning.

The Criminologist

The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 1975

★ 1.9

Essay

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Laura Mulvey

1975

★ 1.8

Film · Thriller (film) · Thriller

Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know, the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah, then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin', and the ocean turns red.

Quint

Jaws · 1975

★ 1.8

Magazine

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland

1975

★ 1.7

Newspaper

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

1975

★ 1.7

Historical literature · Philosophical literature

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish · 1975

★ 1.2

Interview · TV program

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

1975

★ 1.0