2014 · Skopia

Showing 40 quotes from 2014

2014

★ 6.9

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

Roger Scruton

How to Be a Conservative · 2014

★ 5.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Get the government out of my fucking snatch.

Selina Meyer

Veep · 2014

★ 3.9

Sermon

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Pope Francis

2014

★ 3.8

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.

Cooper

Interstellar · 2014

★ 3.8

Interview

I'm just 'bout that action, boss.

Marshawn Lynch

2014

★ 3.7

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

You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers.

Mason Sr.

Boyhood · 2014

★ 3.7

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

No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down.

Sonny Weaver Jr.

Draft Day · 2014

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

Cooper

Interstellar · 2014

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but...it can't run backwards. Just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.

Brand

Interstellar · 2014

★ 3.7

Film · Neo-noir · Action (film) · Action

Fuck management.

Ms. Perkins

John Wick · 2014

★ 3.7

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

Fletcher

Whiplash · 2014

★ 3.7

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape.

Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness · 2014

★ 3.6

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma

2014

★ 3.6

Speech

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

2014

★ 3.6

Film · Neo-noir · Action (film) · Action

Are you scared of the fuckin' boogeyman? I'm not.

Isosef Tarasov

John Wick · 2014

★ 3.6

Film · Neo-noir · Action (film) · Action

Everything's got a price, bitch.

Iosef Tarasov

John Wick · 2014

★ 3.6

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Siri, why does God allow suffering?

Mike McLintock

Veep · 2014

★ 3.6

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

I was there to push people beyond what's expected of them. I believe that is an absolute necessity.

Fletcher

Whiplash · 2014

★ 3.6

Speech · Commencement address

I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion.

Jim Carrey

2014

★ 3.5

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness · 2014

★ 3.5

TV program · Drama (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Drama · Comedy

He's so stupid, he doesn't realize how miserable he should be. I envy that.

BoJack Horseman

Bojack Horseman · 2014

★ 3.5

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

I'd rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remember who I was.

Andrew

Whiplash · 2014

★ 3.5

Standup comedy · Comedy

It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive."

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed · 2014

★ 3.5

Standup comedy · Comedy

We go to bars so we can behave like children, toddlers, really. You ever go to a bar at 2am? You might as well be picking up a kid at nursery school.

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed · 2014

★ 3.5

Political literature

When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

Russell Brand

Revolution · 2014

★ 3.5

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation · 2014

★ 2.1

Essay · Feminist literature

I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists · 2014

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

Life consists of two dates with a dash in between... Make the dash count.

Stuart Scott

2014

★ 2.0

To me America used to be a place that made steel and cars and had giant department stores. Now basically we produce amateur talent and people that judge amateur talent.

Jerry Seinfeld

2014

★ 2.0

Interview

Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

2014

★ 2.0

Film · Science fiction (film) · Epic (film) · Science fiction · Epic

We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.

Professor Brand

Interstellar · 2014

★ 2.0

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

They're old people. They eat, they sleep, they complain, they watch Family Feud. Oh my god, I wanna be an old person.

Andy Dwyer

Parks and Recreation · 2014

★ 2.0

Standup comedy · Comedy

Really the only time to ever drink a shot is never. No one's ever drank a shot and then done something they're proud of.

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed · 2014

★ 1.9

Interview

I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it.

Bill Murray

2014

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

Now the art world has become the art market.

Eric Fischl

2014

★ 1.9

Interview

Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

Wangechi Mutu

2014

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

You should feel slightly incompetent at what you're trying to do. The minute you start to feel like an expert, what you really are is a hack.

Michael Cunningham

2014

★ 1.8

TV program · Drama (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Drama · Comedy

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

Mr. Peanutbutter

Bojack Horseman · 2014

★ 1.8

Interview

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

Angela Davis

2014

★ 1.2