Progress quotes

“- Aitch: With this pill, they say you take it and that's it. Your hair don't grow, you don't go bald, it stays the same. You have your hair cut once, in whatever style you want, and it stays like that for the rest of your natural life. It's completely revolutionary.
- Jackie: What if you get fed up with your style, you berk?
- Aitch: Well,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cavan Kendall - Aitch
Julianne White - Jackie

“As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.”
Brendan Fraser

“If I knew things would no longer be, I would have tried to remember better.”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Sam Krichinsky

“- Kitty Packard: Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
- Carlotta Vance: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.”

Jean Harlow - Kitty Packard
Marie Dressler - Carlotta Vance

“The fact of the matter is by the year 2000 every city will be black. Thanks to the fax, the modem, conference call, federal-fucking express, the beast will be able to conduct his business from his home in the white suburb leaving the city a great wide warzone full of nuclear brothers.”
Glenn Plummer - Baby Sinister

“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
Mark Pellegrino - Jacob

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone, but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price: you lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer... (continue)(continue reading)
Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond

“Business is business and progress is progress.”
Allan Cuthbertson - The Lawyer

“- Harry Flowers: The world's a dodgy place, my friends, I can't help that. But, we've got progress. Look at the Yanks!
- Dennis: The new world.”
Johnny Shannon - Harry Flowers
Anthony Morton - Dennis

“Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.”
Daniel Hugh Kelly - Sojef

“- Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
- High Constable: Stand down.
- Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Alun Armstrong - High Constable

“There are a great many chances for advancement. Who knows? Within a short time, you may become my Vice President. My first and only vice.”

Pierre Watkin - Mr. Skinner

You can't un-fuck what's been fucked. You know, a beautiful Italian girl once said to me, "David, you can't unfuck what's been fucked". Women are always getting in the way of progress, aren't they?
James McAvoy - David Percival

“The beauty of American arrogance is that they can't imagine a world where they're not a step ahead.”
Saïd Taghmaoui - Suarez

“This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture.”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“- Lytton Strachey: I know it was an obscene and ridiculous war, but, I suppose its quite convenient to have one.
- Lady Ottoline Morrell: Now we shall see some real progress, Lytton. We're on the threshold of a golden age.
- Lytton Strachey: You know, Ottili, given the circumstances, I really think we ought to dance.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Penelope Wilton - Lady Ottoline Morrell

“If you wish to keep ahead of your competitor, you cannot afford to ignore the importance of the Billows Feeding Machine.”

Chester Conklin - Mechanic

“There is no science, no progress, without sacrifice.”
Matthew Goode - Albright

“Our country's not an island any more. This is the decade in which London will become Europe's capital, having cleared away the out-dated. We've got mile after mile or acre after acre of land for our future prosperity. No other city in the world has got, right at its centre, such an opportunity for profitable progress.”

Bob Hoskins - Harold

“It's just a matter of time before someone borrows your technology, improves it and makes a billion dollars on it.”
Tim Robbins - Gary Winston

“I don't like to discuss works in progress. If I let the words tumble out prematurely, it changes it, and I may never get it back.”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“Soon the world is only going to buy and sell products using bitcoins.”
Shameik Moore - Malcolm

“Don't bother your head with things you don't understand and you won't go far wrong. Never go off at half cock. Keep cool, keep your mouth shut and avoid politicians like the plague. That's the way to get on in the army.”
Roland Culver - Colonel Betteridge

“- Harry Osborn: You are experimenting on people in there.
- Donald Menken: Progress has its stepping stones.”
Dane DeHaan - Harry Osborn
Colm Feore - Donald Menken

“- Warren Fenton: Any progress yet?
- Charlie Chan: Long road sometimes shortest way to end of journey.”
Jonathan Hale - Warren Fenton
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan