1984 · Skopia

Showing 46 quotes from 1984

Film · Martial arts (film) · Drama (film) · Martial arts · Drama

Wax on, wax off.

Mr. Miyagi

The Karate Kid · 1984

★ 7.3

Magazine

It takes a village to raise a child.

Toni Morrison

1984

★ 6.3

Speech · Political speech

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and all are precious in God's sight. America is not like a blanket, one piece of unbroken cloth-the same color, the same texture, the same size. It is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

Address to Democratic National Convention, 1988 · 1984

★ 6.0

Song · Rock music

So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U. S. A.

Bruce Springsteen

Born in the U.S.A · 1984

★ 5.5

Song · Pop music

Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Bruce Cockburn

Lovers in a Dangerous Time · 1984

★ 5.2

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

John R. Searle

1984

★ 5.0

Essay · Feminist literature

Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action.

Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider · 1984

★ 4.4

Film · Martial arts (film) · Drama (film) · Martial arts · Drama

First learn stand, then learn fly. Nature rule, Daniel-San, not the mind.

Mr. Miyagi

The Karate Kid · 1984

★ 3.9

Film · Sports (film) · Sports

Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for.

Roy Hobbs

The Natural · 1984

★ 3.8

Novel

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.7

My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan

1984

★ 3.7

Novel

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities · 1984

★ 3.7

Film · Martial arts (film) · Drama (film) · Martial arts · Drama

Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?

Kreese

The Karate Kid · 1984

★ 3.7

Essay

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

1984

★ 3.6

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death · 1984

★ 3.6

Information almost wants to be free.

Stewart Brand

1984

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

Cesar Chavez

1984

★ 3.6

Interview

Leadership means making people feel good.

Jean Chretien

1984

★ 3.6

Film · Mockumentary · Comedy (film) · Comedy

There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

Nigel Tufnel

This is Spinal Tap · 1984

★ 3.6

Film · Mockumentary · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Have...a good...time...all the time. That's my philosophy, Marty.

Viv Savage

This is Spinal Tap · 1984

★ 3.6

Novel

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.5

Film · Documentary

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.

Harvey Milk

1984

★ 3.5

Song · Folk music

Now, maybe there's a God above As for me all I've ever learned from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah · 1984

★ 3.5

Film · Epic (film) · Crime (film) · Epic · Crime

I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it, it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.

Noodles

Once Upon a Time in America · 1984

★ 2.9

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

I'll be back.

Terminator

The Terminator · 1984

★ 2.3

Film · Coming of age (film) · Comedy (film) · Coming of age · Comedy

I can't believe this. They fucking forgot my birthday.

Samantha 'Sam' Baker

Sixteen Candles · 1984

★ 2.1

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Most paranoid delusions are intricate but this is brillant.

Silberman

The Terminator · 1984

★ 2.1

Novel

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Novel

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Film · Sports (film) · Sports

You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

Iris Gaines

The Natural · 1984

★ 2.0

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Machines need love too!

Ginger

The Terminator · 1984

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

We are paternalists when we make someone act in his own interests.

Derek Parfit

1984

★ 1.9

Novel

None among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Novel

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Interview

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

U.G. Krishnamurti

1984

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

James Baldwin

1984

★ 1.9

Film · Fantasy (film) · Fantasy

Never give up and good luck will find you.

Falkor

The NeverEnding Story · 1984

★ 1.9

Novel

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Novel

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Novel

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Short story

The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Saul Bellow

1984

★ 1.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Comedy (film) · Coming of age · Comedy

That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else.

Jim Baker

Sixteen Candles · 1984

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

The part of our moral theory... That covers how we affect future generations... Is the most important part of our moral theory, since the next few centuries will be the most important in human history.

Derek Parfit

1984

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

Roald Dahl

1984

★ 1.8

Political debate

I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Ronald Reagan

1984 Presidential Debates · 1984

★ 1.2

Interview · TV program

Weightlessness is a great equalizer.

Sally Ride

1984

★ 1.0