Knowledge quotes
363 knowledge quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
- From the movie: Cold Mountain
“I can talk about farming in Latin. I can read French. I can lace up a corset, God knows. I can name the principal rivers in Europe, just don't ask me to name one stream in this county! I can embroider but I can't darn! I can arrange cut flowers but I can't grow them! If a thing has a function, if I might do something with it, then it wasn't...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Oldboy
“- Park Cheol-woong: We put a hypnosis-inducing drug in your water.
- Dae-su Oh: Sodium barbiturate?
- Park Cheol-woong: Ha! TV Man knows it all!” - From the movie: Nothing Lasts Forever
“Over the years, Adam, many spirits have helped us bring more light and more understanding into the world. Up there is our gallery of past masters. One day, your picture could be up there.”
- From the movie: Listen to Me
“Knowledge is better than ignorance.”
- From the movie: A Christmas Story
“I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene.”
- From the movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
“I know now that the course human race has set for itself cannot be changed. I am the last desperate chance for a doomed planet. Now, leave this place or die!”
- From the movie: Con Air
- Vince Larkin: We got you a seat right next to him, and he's known to be somewhat garrulous in the company of thieves.
- Duncan Malloy: Garrulous? What the fuck is garrulous?
- Vince Larkin: That would be loquacious, verbose, effusive. How about chatty?
- Duncan Malloy: [to Devers] What's with Dictionary Boy?
- Vince Larkin: "Thesaurus Boy" I... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Die Hard with a Vengeance
“- John McClane: I want you to get a hold of a guy named Cobb. Walter Cobb. C-o-b-b. He's the head of my police unit. Get him down here. Find him. Tell him you were with John McClane. And tell him to find out who the 21st president was.
- Jerry Parks: Chester A. Arthur.
- John McClane: What?
- Jerry Parks: Chester A. Arthur. 1881 to 1885....” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Candyman
“What do the good know except what the bad teach them by their excesses?”
- From the movie: Cannibal Holocaust
- From the movie: Fight Club
“- Tyler Durden: It's a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?
- The Narrator: ...Consumers?
- Tyler Durden: Right. We are consumers. We're the by-products of a lifestyle obsession.” - From the movie: October Sky
“- Quentin: What do you want to know about rockets?
- Homer: Everything.” - From the movie: Fearless
“People say they want to know the truth, but what they really want to know is that they already know the truth.”
- From the movie: Bean
“My job is to sit and look at paintings. So, what have I learned that I can say about this painting? Well, firstly, it's really quite big, which is excellent. because If it were really small, you know, microscopic, then hardly anyone would be able to see it. Which would be a tremendous shame.”
- From the movie: Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
“- Jodi Chang: Do we have a lighter?
- Desert Jack Sawyer: Burt does.
- Burt: How do you know?
- Desert Jack Sawyer: Well, 'cause you're... Burt.
- Burt: Damn right I am.” - From the movie: Lean on Me
“Hey, son... put something in your head, not on it!”
- From the movie: The Palm Beach Story
“- J. D. Hackensacker III: You don't marry someone you just met the day before; at least I don't.
- The Princess Centimillia: But that's the only way, dear. If you get to know too much about them you'd never marry them.” - From the animation: An American Tail
“- Papa Mousekewitz: Mr. Curious, you've discovered the herring.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Herring? I thought they were fish.
- Papa Mousekewitz: But Fievel, herring are fish.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Really, Papa?
- Papa Mousekewitz: Yes! In the ocean, there are many kinds of fish, and herring is one of them. Tiny fishes, not so tiny fishes, fishes as...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Forces of Nature
“- Ben Holmes: Are you going to be here when I get back?
- Sarah Lewis: You know me.
- Ben Holmes: I would not presume.” - From the movie: V. I. Warshawski
“This is Chicago: now everybody knows everything, but nobody knows nothin'.”
- From the movie: The Wedding Date
“- Edward Fletcher-Wooten: How do you know so much about so much?
- Nick Mercer: I’m a hooker.” - From the movie: Free Willy 3: The Rescue
“- Drew Halbert: What are you doing?
- Jesse: Making a call. Willy likes the sound of my harmonica playing. When he hears it, he knows it's me.
- Drew Halbert: So you think you're gonna play that sound on the hydrophone.
- Jesse: Uh huh.
- Drew Halbert: And he's just gonna come running.” - From the movie: Son of Frankenstein
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