Knowledge quotes

“- Alex Munday: The real mechanism is inside encased in a titanium shell, if you trip the external feedback circuit the bomb will detonate.
- Jason Gibbons: Wow! You know for a bikini waxer you know an awful lot about bombs.
- Alex Munday: Isn't it amazing how much you can learn off of the internet?”
Lucy Liu - Alex Munday
Matt LeBlanc - Jason Gibbons

“Come back with me to the States. Your English is good. You're studying to be a teacher. I've taught you all the best dirty words. You can tutor French and live with me.”
Miles Chapin - Joel

“Let me ask you something. If you know so much about men and women, how come there was no one waiting for you at the airport?”
Meg Ryan - Kate

“- Captain David Trilling: I'll never... give you the code.
- Travis Dane: The psychological profile we have on you says you will.”
David Gianopoulos - Captain David Trilling
Eric Bogosian - Travis Dane

“Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?”
George Clooney - Everett

“- First Woman in Line: Where is the passenger processing lounge for the lunar shuttle?
- Information Agent: Concourse lounge C, fourth level.
- First Woman in Line: Thank you.
- Information Agent: Next?
- Next Woman in Line: How long is my parking permit good for?
- Information Agent: Two hours.
- Next Woman in Line: Thank you.
- Information...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marcy Lafferty - First Woman in Line
Ed Call - Information Agent
Hilary Beane - Next Woman in Line
Stanley Lawrence - Next Man

“Somebody knows more than we do. Somebody is out there killing these sons of bitches. And that somebody is gonna walk us right to their front door!”

Forest Whitaker - Bernard

“I've always found that the independent mind is dangerous. If the man had wings, no doubt he would return from the skies to tell us the Heavens are empty.”
Kario Salem - Arojaz

“You see, Sir, between the two of us, we do know them all.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor

“- Jimmy Nova: Wanna know what a cockroach is called in Algeria?
- Montello Hungry: Why the fuck would someone want to know that?”
Paul Dinello - Jimmy Nova
Robert Costanzo - Montello Hungry

“It's all the same machine. The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert.”
Nicky Guadagni - Holloway

“I don't discriminate between different ways of knowing.”
Thomas Jay Ryan - Henry Fool

“- Lola Burns: You hardly know me?
- Gifford Middleton: I've known you in every ripple of moonlight I've ever seen. In every symphony I've ever heard. In every perfume I've ever smelt.”
Franchot Tone - Gifford Middleton
Jean Harlow - Lola Burns

“- Jeff Badger: You are the sheriff wife now. It would be very embarrassing for you to know who I am.
- Flower Belle Lee: I've never been embarrassed in my life.”
Joseph Calleia - Jeff Badger
Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“Nobody knows anything about anybody.”
Don Ameche - Phil O'Neil

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's learning things never taught me nothin'. And books is the worst.”
Madeline Kahn - Betty

“- Bret Maverick: See that hawk? You know what it means?
- Annabelle Bransford: No. What does it mean?
- Bret Maverick: Nothing. But you didn't know that did you?”
Mel Gibson - Bret Maverick
Jodie Foster - Annabelle Bransford

“- Grace Stewart: You say you know this house well?
- Mrs. Bertha Mills: Like the back of my hand, that is assuming the walls haven't sprouted legs and moved in the meantime.
- Grace Stewart: The only thing that moves here is the light, but it changes everything.”
Nicole Kidman - Grace Stewart
Fionnula Flanagan - Mrs. Bertha Mills

“- Chili Palmer: Harry Zimm.
- Harry Zimm: Jesus Christ!
- Chili Palmer: How you doing? I'm Chili Palmer.
- Harry Zimm: Jesus, if I have a heart attack, I hope you know what to do.”

John Travolta - Chili Palmer
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“- Dirk Moran: I ought to teach you a lesson.
- Porter Ricks: I'd like that. I have a thirst for knowledge; teach me.”
Jonathan Banks - Dirk Moran
Paul Hogan - Porter Ricks

“Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Amy Archer

“- Buck Laughlin: Tell me, do you know the difference between a rectal thermometer and a tongue depressor?
- Leslie's Nurse: Uh, no.
- Buck Laughlin: Remind me never to come to you for a physical!”
Fred Willard - Buck Laughlin
Jay-Lyn Green - Leslie's Nurse

“You are entering a new world where you will certainly be successful because you have knowledge. Study has always been our religious duty as jews. Our exclusion from society has given us an ability to adapt to others and to sense connections between things that seem diverse.”
Ralph Fiennes - Ignatz Sonnenschein

“Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“- The Cigarette Smoking Man: He's seen more than he should.
- Strughold: What has he seen? Of the whole, he has seen but pieces.
- The Cigarette Smoking Man: He's determined now, reinvested.
- Strughold: He's but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.”

William B. Davis - The Cigarette-Smoking Man
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Strughold