1980 · Skopia

Showing 47 quotes from 1980

Film · Epic (film) · Science fiction (film) · Epic · Science fiction

I am your father.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back · 1980

★ 8.4

Film · Epic (film) · Science fiction (film) · Epic · Science fiction

No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try.

Yoda

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back · 1980

★ 7.8

Film · Psychological horror (film) · Horror (film) · Psychological horror · Horror

Here's Johnny!

Jack Torrance

The Shining · 1980

★ 6.5

Song · Pop music

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Beautiful Boy · 1980

★ 6.4

Song · Reggae music

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Bob Marley

Zion Train · 1980

★ 5.5

Film · Epic (film) · Science fiction (film) · Epic · Science fiction

Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back · 1980

★ 5.4

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

1980

★ 5.3

Play

To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

1980

★ 5.2

Essay · Journal · Scientific literature

"Could a machine think?" my own view is that only a machine could think, and indeed only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines that had the same causal powers as brains... Whatever else intentionality is, it is a biological phenomenon, and it is as likely to be as causally dependent on the specific biochemistry of its origins as lactation, photosynthesis, or any other biological phenomena.

John R. Searle

Minds, Brains, and Programs · 1980

★ 5.0

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

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood Blues

The Blues Brothers · 1980

★ 4.5

TV broadcast

Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Al Michaels

1980

★ 4.4

Film · Epic (film) · Science fiction (film) · Epic · Science fiction

You like me because I’m a scoundrel. There aren’t enough scoundrels in your life.

Han Solo

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back · 1980

★ 3.9

Film · Psychological horror (film) · Horror (film) · Psychological horror · Horror

Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principle is? Do you?

Jack Torrance

The Shining · 1980

★ 3.9

Political debate

I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Reagan

1980

★ 3.8

Scientific literature

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan

1980

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Steve McCroskey

Airplane! · 1980

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body.

Ty Webb

Caddyshack · 1980

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

My foe, my enemy, is an animal. In order to conquer it, I have to think like an animal, and whenever possible, to look like one.

Carl Spackler

Caddyshack · 1980

★ 3.7

Novel

Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose · 1980

★ 3.6

TV program

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

1980

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

1980

★ 3.5

Novel

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose · 1980

★ 3.5

Poem

Our hair turns white with our ripening as though to fly away in some coming wind, bearing the seed of what we know.

Wendell Berry

1980

★ 3.5

TV program

The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

1980

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Elaine Dickinson

Airplane! · 1980

★ 3.5

Feminist literature

Men may have had their own very good reasons for bringing women up in servitude, but the soul of a servant is not an attractive thing, and one of the most infuriating aspects of women's constricted upbringing is that it has made them less attractive, even in the eyes of their constrictors, than they should have been. Man has twisted and pruned women out of all recognition and then not liked the results.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

The Sceptical Feminst · 1980

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl

The Twits · 1980

★ 3.5

Song · New wave

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself Well, how did I get here?

Talking Heads

Once in a Lifetime · 1980

★ 3.5

Political debate

Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Ronald Reagan

1980

★ 2.8

Song · Rock music

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, Or is it something worse?

Bruce Springsteen

The River · 1980

★ 2.2

Poem

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

Variation on the Word Sleep · 1980

★ 2.0

Interview

No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

1980

★ 2.0

Film · Sports (film) · Biography (film) · Sports · Biography

If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose.

Joey LaMotta

Raging Bull · 1980

★ 2.0

Film · Psychological horror (film) · Horror (film) · Psychological horror · Horror

Women. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

Lloyd

The Shining · 1980

★ 2.0

Newspaper

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

1980

★ 1.9

Essay

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

1980

★ 1.9

Novel

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose · 1980

★ 1.9

Interview

One of the meanings of human existence, the source of human freedom, is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile.

Michel Foucault

1980

★ 1.9

Essay

The actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

Daphne du Maurier

1980

★ 1.9

Novel · Science fiction

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1980

★ 1.9

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