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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

Radio broadcast · Novel · Science fiction

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1978

★ 3.5

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-1 for every 500 Americans, three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyer serves 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Jimmy Carter

1978

★ 3.5

Interview · Newspaper

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Buckminster Fuller

1978

★ 3.5

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive.

Henry Fairlie

1978

★ 3.4

Speech · Scientific literature

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

1978

★ 3.4

Essay

If God has died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.

Wilfrid Sheed

1978

★ 3.4

Political literature

History does not provide us with any instance of a society that repressed the economic liberties of the individual while being solicitous of his other liberties.

Irving Kristol

Two Cheers for Capitalism · 1978

★ 2.5

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Gloria Steinem

1978

★ 2.1

Play · Drama (play)

I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.

Tom Stoppard

1978

★ 1.9

Song · Rock music

It's better to burn out Than to fade away.

Neil Young

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) · 1978

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

Life is a game... And you keep score with dollars.

Ted Turner

1978

★ 1.9

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

Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy.

Frenchie

Grease · 1978

★ 1.9

Film · Horror (film) · Horror

You can't kill the boogeyman!

Tommy

Halloween · 1978

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal writing

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Harry A. Blackmun

Regents of University of California v. Bakke · 1978

★ 1.9

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Lex Luthor

Superman · 1978

★ 1.9

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Gerald Brenan

1978

★ 1.8

Novel · Science fiction

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1978

★ 1.0