2012 · Skopia

Showing 47 quotes from 2012

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Breaking Bad · 2012

★ 7.3

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that.

Barack Obama

2012

★ 5.4

Press conference

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Wayne LaPierre

2012

★ 5.3

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Jean Valjean

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 4.6

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what... Who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...These are people who pay no income tax...And so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Mitt Romney

2012

★ 4.4

TV program · Sketch comedy · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I said "biiiitch"…

Craig

Key & Peele · 2012

★ 3.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2012

★ 3.8

Film · Spy (film) · Action (film) · Spy · Action

I know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be.

James Bond

Skyfall · 2012

★ 3.8

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

You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think it counts as love.

Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 2012

★ 3.8

Novel

The half-life of love is forever.

Junot Diaz

This is How You Lose Her · 2012

★ 3.7

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs.

Jack Donaghy

30 Rock · 2012

★ 3.7

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

You gotta pay attention to the signs. When life reaches out a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back. I'm telling you its a sin if you don't reach back! It'll haunt you for the rest of your days like a curse.

Pat Sr.

Silver Linings Playbook · 2012

★ 3.7

Novel · Historical literature

The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 3.6

Novel · Young adult fiction

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green

The Fault In Our Stars · 2012

★ 3.6

Interview · Magazine

The idea of knowing exactly where you're going is overrated.

Sarah Sze

The New Yorker · 2012

★ 3.6

Interview · Magazine

Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

Sherman Alexie

2012

★ 3.6

Song · Rock music

I know things can really get rough when you go it alone. Don’t go thinking you gotta be tough and bleed like a stone.

The Shins

Simple Song · 2012

★ 3.6

Film · Fantasy (film) · Drama (film) · Fantasy · Drama

The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted.

Hushpuppy

Beasts of the Southern Wild · 2012

★ 3.6

TV program · Fantasy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Fantasy · Drama

Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Lord Varys

Game of Thrones · 2012

★ 3.6

Film · Adventure (film) · Drama (film) · Adventure · Drama

In a few hundred years, science has taken us farther in understanding the universe, than religion has in 10,000.

Santosh Patel

Life of Pi · 2012

★ 3.6

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart, you will know peace.

Loki

The Avengers · 2012

★ 3.6

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

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Charlie (Perks of Being a Wallflower)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 2012

★ 3.6

Film · Thriller (film) · Thriller

This is what defeat looks like, bro. Your jihad is over.

Dan

Zero Dark Thirty · 2012

★ 3.6

Interview

If it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

Todd Akin

2012

★ 3.5

Poem

She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cozy bed, and to love and be loved in return.

Starra Neely Blade

She Did Not Need Much · 2012

★ 3.5

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business.

Walter White

Breaking Bad · 2012

★ 2.9

Film · Western (film) · Drama (film) · Western · Drama

I'm curious what makes you so curious.

Django

Django Unchained · 2012

★ 2.2

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Fantine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 2.2

Interview

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2012

★ 2.1

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.

Mike Ehrmantraut

Breaking Bad · 2012

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

A passing grade? Like a C? Why don't I just get pregnant at a bus station?

Annie Edison

Community · 2012

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Windows are the eyes to the house.

Andy Dwyer

Parks and Recreation · 2012

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

If there were more food and fewer people, this would be a perfect party.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2012

★ 2.1

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.

Eponine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 2.0

Film · Adventure (film) · Drama (film) · Adventure · Drama

Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here.

Gita Patel

Life of Pi · 2012

★ 2.0

Film · Adventure (film) · Drama (film) · Adventure · Drama

You think that tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.

Santosh Patel

Life of Pi · 2012

★ 2.0

Novel · Historical literature

We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 1.9

Newspaper

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

2012

★ 1.9

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Here is the thing about equality, everyone is equal when they are dead.

Gavroche

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 1.9

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Without him The world around me changes The trees are bare and everywhere The streets are full of strangers.

Eponine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · Historical drama (film) · Biography · Historical drama

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North?

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln · 2012

★ 1.9

Film · Spy (film) · Action (film) · Spy · Action

Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas.

Skyfall · 2012

★ 1.9

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

You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower.

Patrick

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 2012

★ 1.9

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

Is not this simplier? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

Loki

The Avengers · 2012

★ 1.9

Film · Thriller (film) · Thriller

It's cool, that you're strong and I respect it, I do. In the end, everybody breaks, bro. It's biology.

Dan

Zero Dark Thirty · 2012

★ 1.9

Novel · Historical literature

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 1.1

Interview · Newspaper

Everyone repeats themselves.

Rachel Whiteread

2012

★ 1.1