1979 · Skopia

Showing 50 quotes from 1979

Film · Action (film) · Crime (film) · Action · Crime

Can you dig it?

The Warriors · 1979

★ 7.0

Film · Psychological drama (film) · War (film) · Psychological drama · War

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Apocalypse Now · 1979

★ 7.0

Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

1979

★ 6.9

Feminist literature

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Sexual Economics · 1979

★ 6.1

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

One Way Street · 1979

★ 6.0

Film · Psychological drama (film) · War (film) · Psychological drama · War

In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane.

General R. Corman

Apocalypse Now · 1979

★ 6.0

Song · Pop music

When the working day is done Oh girls, they wanna have fun Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Girls Just Want to Have Fun · 1979

★ 5.4

Film · Psychological drama (film) · War (film) · Psychological drama · War

Terminate...with extreme prejudice.

Apocalypse Now · 1979

★ 5.4

Song · Album · Rock music

We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone. Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 · 1979

★ 5.3

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

1979

★ 5.2

God loves me, and I have an opportunity to love others as he loves me, not in big things, but in small things with great love.

Nobel Prize Lecture, Nobel Prize Lecture, 1972 · 1979

★ 4.5

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

1979

★ 4.4

Film · Psychological drama (film) · War (film) · Psychological drama · War

I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.

Captain Benjamin L. Willard

Apocalypse Now · 1979

★ 3.9

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

The White Album · 1979

★ 3.8

Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

1979

★ 3.8

The world is what it is.

1979

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

If you wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans.

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Always look on the bright side of life.

Lead Singer Crucifee

Monty Python's Life of Brian · 1979

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

And son, don't never ever trust whitey.

The Jerk · 1979

★ 3.7

I thought love would adapt itself to my needs. But needs grow too fast. They come up like weeds. Through cracks in the conversation. Through silences in the dark. Through everything you thought was concrete.

1979

★ 3.6

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