Teaching quotes

191 teaching quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- 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
    [Tag:curiosity, knowledge, teaching]
  • “- Capt. Elisabeth Campbell: Psychological Operations. I teach there.
    - Brenner: What do you teach?
    - Capt. Elisabeth Campbell: Mostly we fuck with people's minds.”

    Leslie Stefanson - Elisabeth Campbell
    John Travolta - Paul Brenner
    [Tag:deceit, psychology, teaching]
  • “If you can't dance a step, you can't teach it, and if you can't teach it, we might as well all pack up and go home. With young Liz available again, you've got a chance to get your status quo vadis back... so to speak.”

    Bill Hunter - Barry Fife
    [Tag:dancing, surrender, teaching]
  • “- Astrologer: But she loves the blind man.
    - Jaffar: Do you call the lisping of two children in the garden love? Love she has yet to learn and I have yet to teach her.”

    Hay Petrie - Astrologer
    Conrad Veidt - Jaffar
    [Tag:blindness, love, teaching]
  • “To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.”
    Wes Studi - Sphinx
    [Tag:learning, teaching]
  • “- Senzo Tanaka: For 2,000 the teachings passed, father to son, father to son. When Shingo died, it stopped.
    - Frank Dux: Teach me. I can do it.
    - Senzo Tanaka: You are not Japanese! You are not a Tanaka!
    - Frank Dux: You told me to use any tactic that works, never to commit yourself to one style, to keep an open mind!
    - Senzo Tanaka: Why?
    -...” (continue)
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    Roy Chiao - Senzo Tanaka
    Jean-Claude Van Damme - Frank Dux
    [Tag:fighting, honor, teaching]
  • - Christy Brown: Fuck off.
    - Dr. Eileen Cole: With speech therapy, I could teach you how to say "fuck off" more clearly.

    Daniel Day-Lewis - Christy Brown
    Fiona Shaw - Dr. Eileen Cole
    [Tag:talking, teaching, words]
  • “This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can't control it, how can you teach?”

    Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark
    [Tag:school, teaching]
  • “- Marnie Piper: A pentagram. Lon Chaney had one of these on his hand when he was bit by that werewolf.
    - Aggie Cromwell: I've always said that the movies could teach us so much.”

    Kimberly J. Brown - Marnie Piper
    Debbie Reynolds - Aggie Cromwell
    [Tag:movie, teaching]
  • “I've taught you much, my little droogies.”
    Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
    [Tag:experience, teaching]
  • “When I became a coach I tried to teach people how to do that. Tried to teach Pre how to do that. Tried like hell to teach Pre to do that. And Pre taught me. Taught me I was wrong. Pre, you see, was troubled by knowing that a mediocre effort can win a race and a magnificent effort can lose one. Winning a race wouldn't necessarily demand that he...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman
    [Tag:effort, teaching, winning]
  • “- Anna Gilmour: You should be proud of me. I remembered everything you taught me.
    - Terry McCain: I don't remember teaching you anything about punching me in the mouth.”

    Charlotte Lewis - Anna Gilmour
    Thomas Ian Griffith - Terry McCain
    [Tag:fighting, pride, teaching]
  • “- Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Are you blind? Are you blind?
    - Charlie Simms: Of course not.
    - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Then why do you keep grabbing my goddamn arm? I take your arm.
    - Charlie Simms: I'm sorry.
    - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Don't be sorry. How would you know? You've been watching MTV all your life.”

    Al Pacino - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
    Chris O'Donnell - Charlie Simms
    [Tag:dancing, teaching]
  • “- Pvt. Trip: Wait, no. That's my space, nigger. I sleep better close by the door.
    - Cpl. Thomas Searles: Well, if you don't mind, I'd prefer a space where there's more sufficient reading light.
    - Pvt. Trip: Oh, I like it when niggers talk good as white folk!
    - Cpl. Thomas Searles: I'd be happy to teach you. It would be my pleasure.”

    Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip
    Andre Braugher - Cpl. Thomas Searles
    [Tag:mocking, racism, teaching]
  • “- Mathilda: How much would it cost to hire someone to get those dirtbags who killed my brother?
    - Léon: Five grand a head.
    - Mathilda: Wow. How about this: I work for you; in exchange, you teach me how to clean. Hmmm? What do you think? I'll clean your place, I'll do the shopping, I'll even wash your clothes. Is it a deal?”

    Natalie Portman - Mathilda
    Jean Reno - Leon
    [Tag:deal, killing, teaching]
  • “I want to thank you for this award. It's the recognition for my peers, it's all those agonizing days teaching Ozone everything I know.”

    Michael Chambers - Turbo
    [Tag:gratitude, teaching]
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