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Showing 37 quotes from 1978

Animal House · 1978

★ 7.3

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Dean Vernon Wormer

Animal House · 1978

★ 7.0

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

I'm here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.

Superman

Superman · 1978

★ 7.0

Novel · Science fiction

The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...it's Forty-two.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1978

★ 6.9

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

Thomas Beecham

1978

★ 6.9

Interview

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

Anwar Sadat

1978

★ 6.2

Speech · Commencement address

A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man’s noblest impulses.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1978

★ 6.0

Poem

It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman · 1978

★ 5.5

Song · Country music

You got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, and know when to run.

Kenny Rogers

The Gambler · 1978

★ 5.3

Speech

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

1978

★ 5.3

Essay

Suicide... Is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Wilfrid Sheed

1978

★ 5.1

Short story

It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

John Cheever

1978

★ 5.0

Religious literature · Scientific literature

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

Robert Jastrow

God and the Astronomers · 1978

★ 5.0

Song · Rock music

Send lawyers, guns, and money The shit has hit the fan.

Warren Zevon

Lawyers, Guns and Money · 1978

★ 4.5

Poem

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

Still I Rise · 1978

★ 3.9

Song · Punk rock · Rock music

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothing to do, nowhere to go I wanna be sedated.

The Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated · 1978

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

The time has come for someone to put his foot down and that foot is me.

Dean Vernon Wormer

Animal House · 1978

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

We have an old saying in Delta: don't get mad, get even.

Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day

Animal House · 1978

★ 3.7

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

Edward Said

Orientalism · 1978

★ 3.6

Radio broadcast · Novel · Science fiction

The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1978

★ 3.5

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