1986 · Skopia

Showing 50 quotes from 1986

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 7.8

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 7.0

Film · Teen comedy (film) · Teen (film) · Teen comedy · Teen

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off · 1986

★ 6.9

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

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 6.9

Song · Hip hop

You gotta fight For your right To party.

Fight For Your Right · 1986

★ 5.5

Speech · Political speech

Back then, government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

1986

★ 5.3

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

1986

★ 5.1

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

1986

★ 4.5

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

1986

★ 4.5

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

1986

★ 4.4

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 4.0

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

Take me to bed, or lose me forever.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 4.0

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

You can be my wingman anytime.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Richard Dawkins

1986

★ 3.8

Film · War (film) · War

Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.

Platoon · 1986

★ 3.8

Film · War (film) · War

I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy...was in us.

Platoon · 1986

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

Clearly, mistakes were made.

George H.W. Bush

Speech to the American Enterprise Institute, December 3, 1986 · 1986

★ 3.7

Press conference

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.

1986

★ 3.7

Film · Teen comedy (film) · Teen (film) · Teen comedy · Teen

How can I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off · 1986

★ 3.7

Film · War (film) · War

I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down.

Platoon · 1986

★ 3.7

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