1990 · Skopia

Showing 60 quotes from 1990

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

1990

★ 7.0

Sociology

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 6.1

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?... How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny.

Tommy DeVito

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 5.3

Sociology

"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 5.2

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 4.6

Feminist literature

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae · 1990

★ 4.5

Novel

I asked him one time what type of writing brought the most money and the agent says, "Ransom notes."

Elmore Leonard

Get Shorty (novel) · 1990

★ 4.3

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

James Conway

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 4.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

People put you down enough you start to believe it.

Vivian Ward

Pretty Woman · 1990

★ 4.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

I want the fairy tale.

Vivian Ward

Pretty Woman · 1990

★ 4.0

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

I don't want a new family. I don't want any family. Families suck!

Kevin

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.9

Feminist literature

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae · 1990

★ 3.7

Magazine

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

1990

★ 3.7

Press conference

This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, August 5, 1990 · 1990

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

A line has been drawn in the sand.

George H.W. Bush

1990

★ 3.7

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

Keep the change, ya filthy animal!

Johnny

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.7

TV program · Mystery (TV) · Drama (TV) · Mystery · Drama

In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.

Dale Cooper

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 3.7

TV program · Mystery (TV) · Drama (TV) · Mystery · Drama

Black as midnight on a moonless night.

Dale Cooper

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 3.7

Children's literature

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go! · 1990

★ 3.6

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler

1990

★ 3.6

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Ray Bradbury

1990

★ 3.6

You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented-that's for the cows.

Coco Chanel

1990

★ 3.6

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again. It was just all routine and you didn't even think about it.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 3.6

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

You can be a little old for a lot of things. You're never too old to be afraid.

Marley

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.6

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

I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead! 1...2...10!

Johnny

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.6

Film · Spy (film) · Thriller (film) · Spy · Thriller

The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch.

Capt. Bart Mancuso

The Hunt for Red October · 1990

★ 3.6

Novel

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Charles R. Johnson

Middle Passage · 1990

★ 3.5

Newspaper

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Michael Torke

1990

★ 3.5

Novel

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures · 1990

★ 3.5

Speech · Commencement address

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

Barbara Bush

1990

★ 3.5

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

How you feel about your family is a complicated thing. Deep down, you'll always love them. But you can forget that you love them, and you can hurt them and they can hurt you, and that's not just because you're young.

Marley

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.5

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there’s someone perfect, who might be searching for us.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1990

★ 3.5

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

Teachers never die. They live in your memory forever. They were there when you arrived, they were there when you left. Like fixtures. Once in a while they taught you something. But not that often. And, you never really knew them, any more than they knew you. Still, for awhile, you believed in them. And-if you were lucky-maybe there was one who believed in you.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1990

★ 3.5

Personal journal

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Alan Clark

1990

★ 3.5

Poem

History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.

Seamus Heaney

1990

★ 3.5

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Garrison Keillor

1990

★ 3.4

Speech · Political speech

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

1990

★ 2.8

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

I never had anyone make me feel as cheap as you did today.

Vivian Ward

Pretty Woman · 1990

★ 2.3

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

Relax. You'll live longer.

Quaid

Total Recall · 1990

★ 2.2

Interview · TV program

I'm not conceited-I'm convinced!

Little Richard

1990

★ 2.1

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