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.

Maverick

Top Gun · 1986

★ 7.8

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

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

Stinger

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

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?

The Writer

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 6.9

Song · Hip hop

You gotta fight For your right To party.

Beastie Boys

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.

Ronald Reagan

1986

★ 5.3

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

Gary Shilling

1986

★ 5.1

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

P.D. James

1986

★ 4.5

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren

1986

★ 4.5

Short story

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

Tama Janowitz

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.

Maverick

Top Gun · 1986

★ 4.0

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

Take me to bed, or lose me forever.

Carole

Top Gun · 1986

★ 4.0

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

You can be my wingman anytime.

Ice

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.

Chris

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.

Chris

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.

Ronald Reagan

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

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.

Sgt. Barnes

Platoon · 1986

★ 3.7

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

I'm in the prime of my youth, and I'll only be young once!

Teddy Duchamp

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos!

Dusty Bottoms

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.7

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

I weep for the future.

Chez Quis Maitre D'

Ferris Bueller's Day Off · 1986

★ 3.6

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

It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life, like busboys in a restaurant.

The Writer

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 3.6

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

We'd only been gone two days but somehow the town seemed different; smaller.

The Writer

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 3.6

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

We talked into the night. The kind of talk that seemed important until you discover girls.

The Writer

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo!

Lucky Day

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.

El Guapo

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.6

Poem

Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

1986

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Dawkins

1986

★ 3.5

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986 · 1986

★ 3.5

Speech

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George Shultz

1986

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and find out that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.

El Guapo

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

1986

★ 3.5

Historical literature

Up to the moment of this writing... The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.

Primo Levi

The Drowned and the Saved · 1986

★ 3.5

Interview · Magazine

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

U.S. News and World Report · 1986

★ 3.5

Speech

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Pope John Paul II

1986

★ 2.8

Scientific literature

It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Dawkins

1986

★ 2.0

Film · War (film) · War

They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything.

Chris

Platoon · 1986

★ 2.0

Film · War (film) · War

I love this place at night. The stars...there's no right or wrong in them, they're just there.

Sgt. Elias

Platoon · 1986

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

1986

★ 1.9

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

The question isn't what are we going to do. The question is what aren't we going to do.

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's Day Off · 1986

★ 1.9

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Melvin Kranzberg

1986

★ 1.9

Film · Sports (film) · Drama (film) · Sports · Drama

Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.

Merle

Hoosiers · 1986

★ 1.9

Magazine

You can't get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that.

Gerald Brenan

1986

★ 1.8

Speech · Commencement address

Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

1986

★ 1.8

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

When…we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John C. Polanyi

1986

★ 1.8

Newspaper

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.

Aharon Appelfeld

1986

★ 1.7

Interview

Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

1986

★ 1.3

Personal journal

Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people.

Keith Haring

1986

★ 0.8