Knowledge quotes

“- Zeus Carver: That's it!
- John McClane: What?
- Zeus Carver: Hillary Clinton. The 42nd President.
- John McClane: Nah, she'd be the 43rd President.
- Zeus Carver: Alright, alright. But who's the 21st President?
- John McClane: I don't know.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“- Truman Capote: Perry, I know what 'exacerbate' means.
- Perry Smith: Okay... well...
- Truman Capote: There is not a word or a sentence or a concept that you can illuminate for me.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Clifton Collins Jr. - Perry Smith

“- Emma Murdoch: If it was all you knew, maybe it would be a comfort.
- Mr. Hand: But if you were to discover something different... something better.”

Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Emma Murdoch
Richard O'Brien - Mr. Hand

“- Hegai, the Royal Eunuch: Where are you from?
- Hadassah / Esther: I am... of the wind. Whose sound is heard yet none can tell from whence it comes or where it goes.
- Hegai, the Royal Eunuch: Well, we gather in an hour. Try not to blow away before then.”
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Hegai, the Royal Eunuch
Tiffany Dupont - Hadassah / Esther

“- The King of Siam: Someday, you too will know everything.
- Prince Chululongkorn: When do I know that I know everything?
- The King of Siam: When you are king.”
Martin Vidnovic - The King of Siam
Allen D. Hong - Prince Chululongkorn

It was only a couple weeks later she suggested getting married. I said, "Don't you want to get to know me more?". She said, "Why? Does it get better?".

Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“Aunt Agnes, just remember you are not losing a niece, you are gaining a man who is... awfully good at croquet and who can probably greet the wedding guests in Greek, Latin... and hieroglyphics.”
Georgina Cates - Emily

“- Holly Golightly: Let me go.
- Paul Varjak: Not till we get this settled. Now what’s all this jazz about south America?
- Holly Golightly: I thought if I’m marrying a south American, I’d better find out something about the country. ”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly
George Peppard - Paul Varjak

“Know what you know, and know what you don't know. And know that I gotta know everything you know as soon as you know it or sooner.”
Al Pacino - Walter

“Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.”
Henry Winkler - Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli

“- Belloq: Who knows. Perhaps the Ark is still waiting in some antechamber for us to discover. Perhaps there's some vital bit of evidence which eludes us. Perhaps...
- Gobler: Perhaps the girl can help us.
- Dietrich: My feeling exactly. She was in possession of the original piece for years. She may know much if... properly motivated.
- Belloq: I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Freeman - Belloq
Anthony Higgins - Gobler
Wolf Kahler - Dietrich

“I want to show the whole world that you don't need to be 15 and have the figure of boy to win a gold medal.”
Andrea Marcovicci - Alicia Rogov

“- Willingham: Just a few quick questions to probe your knowledge of English history...
- Ralph: Fine.
- Willingham: When she failed to give him a son, Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn...?
- Ralph: Look into adoption?
- Willingham: Beheaded.”

Peter O'Toole - Willingham
John Goodman - Ralph

“Even now, after twenty-five years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie and the suggestions we have found in his notes, and his thoughts he expressed to me have helped to guide us to them. But no one of us can do much. Yet, each of us, perhaps, can catch some gleam of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Greer Garson - Marie Curie

“- Barton Blaze: We've been doing this act less a week. You're already screwing around.
- Young Johnny Blaze: I was just doing it for the crowd.
- Barton Blaze: We both know why you done it. You think she's gonna stand by you when you're in a wheelchair?”

Brett Cullen - Barton Blaze
Matt Long - Young Johnny Blaze

“I must know everything. I must penetrate the heart of his secret! I must become Caligari!”
Werner Krauss - Dr. Caligari

“Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you... and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude.”
David Battley - Mr. Turkentine

“- Josh: I just discovered something really bad that I have to tell you about.
- Sam: I already know you're a homo.”
Jacob Tierney - Josh
Noah Fleiss - Sam

“You would drink, too, if you knew the world half as well as I do.”
Hugh Jackman - Gerald Root

“If there's one thing I know, it's never to mess with mother nature, mother in-laws and, mother freaking Ukrainians.”
Gawtti - Skinny Pete

“- Father Brennan: I was at the hospital, Mr. Thorn, the night your son was born.
- Robert Thorn: What do you know about my son?
- Father Brennan: Everything.”
Pete Postlethwaite - Father Brennan
Liev Schreiber - Robert Thorn

“- Ethan Glance: I'm your backup, okay? I'm on a need to know basis!
- Frank Corvin: You don't need to know dick, and I don't need a backup.”
Loren Dean - Ethan Glance
Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin

“- Ray Ferrier: Haven't you heard? Between me and my brother, we know everything.
- Rachel Ferrier: What's the capital of Australia?
- Ray Ferrier: That's one my brother knows.”
Tom Cruise - Ray Ferrier
Dakota Fanning - Rachel Ferrier

“- Jay: What's the catch?
- Kay: The catch is you will sever every human contact. Nobody will ever know you exist anywhere. Ever. I'll give you to sunrise to think it over.
- Jay: Is it worth it?
- Kay: Oh yeah, it's worth it... if you're strong enough!”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“- Friday: Ma'am, what is the approximate dry weight of the average Madagascan fruit tree bat?
- Streebeck: You mean you don't know?”
Dan Aykroyd - Friday
Tom Hanks - Streebek