1989 · Skopia

Showing 86 quotes from 1989

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 7.2

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

John Keating

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 7.0

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

If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Field of Dreams · 1989

★ 7.0

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

John Keating

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 7.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Harry Burns

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 7.0

Short story

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

1989

★ 6.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

I'll have what she's having.

Older Woman Customer

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 6.9

Essay · Political literature

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy.

Francis Fukuyama

The End of History? · 1989

★ 6.9

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Drama (film) · Comedy drama · Drama

Always do the right thing.

Da Mayor

Do the Right Thing · 1989

★ 5.5

Autobiography and memoir

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

Self-Consciousness · 1989

★ 5.1

Novel

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club · 1989

★ 4.7

Song · Hip hop

Fight the power.

Public Enemy

Fight the Power · 1989

★ 4.5

Novel

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in-particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day · 1989

★ 4.5

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

Dan Quayle

1989

★ 4.4

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

It's amazing, you look like a normal person, but actually, you are the angel of death.

Sally Albright

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 3.9

Novel

The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day · 1989

★ 3.8

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

John Keating

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 3.8

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is...to woo women.

John Keating

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 3.8

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

I'm sixteen years old. I'm not a child anymore.

Ariel

The Little Mermaid · 1989

★ 3.8

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her.

Harry Burns

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 3.8

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