1983

Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!

Scarface · 1983

★ 7.8

Speech · Political speech

An evil empire.

Ronald Reagan

1983

★ 7.2

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Go ahead, make my day.

You'll shoot your eye out.

Sudden Impact · 1983

★ 7.2

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

Mother Parker

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 7.0

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Catharine MacKinnon

1983

★ 6.1

100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

Wayne Gretzky

1983

★ 6.1

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

1983

★ 5.4

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

When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.

Yoda

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 5.4

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown

1983

★ 5.2

Letter

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Vaclav Havel

1983

★ 5.2

Speech

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Edwin Edwards

1983

★ 5.1

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore · 1983

★ 4.4

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Scarface · 1983

★ 4.0

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves.

Scarface · 1983

★ 3.9

You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy!"

Give me what you got, twat lips, before I give your face its first period!

Scarface · 1983

★ 3.9

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Ray Parkins

Sudden Impact · 1983

★ 3.8

Rock music

I can't believe the news today Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away How long? How long must we sing this song?

Sunday Bloody Sunday · 1983

★ 3.7

Every day above ground is a good day.

Bernstein

Scarface · 1983

★ 3.7

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

Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the Dark Side will be complete!

The Emperor

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

In your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.

Ronald Reagan

1983

★ 3.6

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

We plunged into the cornucopia quivering with desire and the ecstasy of unbridled avarice.

Your father...was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed.

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 3.6

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

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 3.6

Essay · Scientific literature

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution as Fact and Theory · 1983

★ 3.5

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.

Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, The World Series—they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Louis Winthorpe III

Trading Places · 1983

★ 3.5

Political literature · Economic literature

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

Milton Friedman

1983

★ 2.6

You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!

You're a legend in your own mind.

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.3

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

College women can smell ignorance...like dog shit.

Sudden Impact · 1983

★ 2.3

Teen (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Teen · Comedy drama

Joel Goodson

Risky Business · 1983

★ 2.2

Lesson number two: don't get high on your own supply.

Elvira Hancock

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.2

All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break 'em for no one. Do you understand?

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.2

Lesson number one: don't underestimate the other guy's greed!

Frank Lopez

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.1

Okay, here's the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education, but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. I could go right to the top.

I can't kill my own father.

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.1

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

Luke Skywalker

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 2.1

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

He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 2.1

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Everybody wants results but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells.

Sudden Impact · 1983

★ 2.1

Interview · Newspaper

Dr. Seuss

The Los Angeles Times · 1983

★ 2.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I am going to need something to kill time before my second beer. How about a first one?

Norm Peterson

Cheers · 1983

★ 2.0

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

You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 2.0

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 1.9

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

Yoda

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy

I always say, religion is a fine thing, taken in moderation.

Coleman

Trading Places · 1983

★ 1.9

Lecture

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Milton Friedman

1983

★ 1.9

Novel · Children's literature

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

The Witches · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

It was all over—I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Mmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.

Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Christmas movie · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful with a dog shits ya!

A Christmas Story · 1983

★ 1.9

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller