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Everybody wants to rule the world. Click on any power quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
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"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."Source: Quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) | Speaker: Coco Chanel
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."Source: Revelation 6:2-8 | Speaker: John The Revelator
"And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet.""Source: Love Story | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"And that's the way it is."Source: CBS Evening News | Speaker: Walter Cronkite
"And unto the uttermost part of the earth."Source: Acts of the Apostles | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Bam!"Source: Emeril Live | Speaker: Emeril Lagasse
"Bond. James Bond."Source: Dr. No | Speaker: James Bond
"Book 'em, Danno."Source: Hawaii Five-O | Speaker: Steve McGarrett
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."Source: Still I Rise | Author: Maya Angelou
"California girls, we're unforgettable."Source: "California Gurls" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"Come out, come out, wherever you are."Source: Cape Fear | Speaker: Max Cady
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"Do you believe in miracles?"Source: 1980 Winter Olympics | Speaker: Al Michaels
"Don't mess with the bull, young man."Source: The Breakfast Club | Speaker: Mr. Vernon
"Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did."Source: "I'm Still Standing" | Speaker: Elton John
"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."Source: The King and I | Speaker: King Mongkut of Siam
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."Source: Coraline | Author: Neil Gaiman & G.K. Chesterton
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife."Source: Gladiator | Speaker: Maximus Decimus Meridius
"Follow the money."Source: All the President's Men | Speaker: Deep Throat
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."Source: Critique of the Gotha Program | Author: Karl Marx
"Gee, Mrs. Cleaver..."Source: Leave It to Beaver | Speaker: Eddie Haskell
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!"Source: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Speaker: President Merkin Muffley
"Get up offa that thing and dance 'till you feel better!"Source: Get Up Offa That Thing | Speaker: James Brown
"Give me some of your tots."Source: Napoleon Dynamite | Speaker: Randy
"Go ahead. Make my day."Source: Sudden Impact | Speaker: Dirty Harry
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms
"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball."Source: Good Golly Miss Molly | Speaker: Little Richard
"Have a vision. Be demanding."Source: It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership | Author: Colin Powell
"Have you checked the children?"Source: When a Stranger Calls | Speaker: Curt Duncan
"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"Source: Batman | Speaker: The Joker
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."Source: Misquoted | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"I ain't so tough."Source: The Public Enemy | Speaker: Tom Powers
"I am definitely a mad man with a box."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Eleventh Doctor
"I am not an animal!"Source: Elephant Man | Speaker: John Merrick
"I am the greatest!"Source: Spoken | Speaker: Muhammad Ali
"I am the one who knocks."Source: Breaking Bad | Speaker: Walter White
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman
"I came in like a wrecking ball"Source: "Wrecking Ball" | Speaker: Miley Cyrus
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."Source: Televised Press Conference | Speaker: Bill Clinton
"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid."Source: Toys "R" Us Commercial | Author: James Patterson
"I drink your milkshake."Source: There Will Be Blood | Speaker: Daniel Plainview
"I know it was you, Fredo."Source: The Godfather, Part II | Speaker: Michael Corleone
"I know nothing!"Source: Hogan's Heroes | Speaker: Sergeant Hans Schultz
"I said you wanna be startin' somethin', you gotta be startin' something."Source: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"I vant to suck your blood!"Source: Dracula (Movie) | Speaker: Count Dracula
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: The Wicked Witch of the West
"I'm a smart, strong, sensual woman."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."Source: Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Speaker: Jessica Rabbit
"I'm Spartacus!"Source: Spartacus | Speaker: Antonius
"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature."Source: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | Author: Paul of Tarsus
"If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?"Source: "Kryptonite" | Speaker: 3 Doors Down
"If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics."Source: The Great McGinty | Speaker: Skeeters
"If they move, kill 'em."Source: The Wild Bunch | Speaker: Pike Bishop
"If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper
"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé
"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."Source: Proverbs 3:6 | Author: King Solomon
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens
"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."Source: Matthew 28:19 | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred"Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade | Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"Source: A Clockwork Orange | Author: Anthony Burgess
"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved."Source: The Prince | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It keeps going and going and going..."Source: Energizer Commercials | Speaker: Commercial Narrator
"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."Source: Timex Commercials | Speaker: John Cameron Swayze
"It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you […] persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It's going down. I'm yelling, "Timber!""Source: "Timber" | Speaker: Pitbull and Kesha
"It's good to be the king."Source: The History of the World: Part I | Speaker: King Louis XVI
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman
"I’d rather be a hammer than a nail"Source: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"Source: The Godfather: Part III | Speaker: Michael Corleone
"Kiss my grits!"Source: Alice | Speaker: Flo
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."Source: Trade Mart speech (undelivered) | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"Let the sky fall. When it crumbles, we will stand tall."Source: "Skyfall" | Speaker: Adele
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women
"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Author: Ken Kesey
"Match me, Sidney."Source: Sweet Smell of Success | Speaker: J.J. Hunsecker
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"Mr. Christian!"Source: Mutiny on the Bounty | Speaker: Captain Bligh
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"Nip it in the bud!"Source: The Andy Griffith Show | Speaker: Barney Fife
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"Source: Goldfinger | Speaker: Auric Goldfinger
"Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway."Source: Stalag 17 | Speaker: Oberst Von Scherbach
"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Eleanor of Aquitaine
"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."Source: 1994 Inaugural Address | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."Source: Problems of War and Strategy | Speaker: Mao Zedong
"Politics is the art of the possible."Source: St. Petersburgische Zeitung | Author: Prince Otto von Bismarck
"Pretty young thing"Source: "P.Y.T." | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"Shaken, not stirred."Source: Goldfinger | Speaker: James Bond
"Shall we play a game?"Source: WarGames | Speaker: WOPR/Joshua
"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe…"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence
"Shine bright like a diamond."Source: "Diamonds" | Speaker: Rihanna
"Shut up and deal."Source: The Apartment | Speaker: Fran Kubelik
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."Source: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Speaker: Senator Padmé Amidala
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington
"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"Source: Planet of the Apes | Speaker: George Taylor
"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."Source: Nip/Tuck | Speaker: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy
"The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."Source: Oh, God! | Speaker: God
"The party don't start 'til I walk in."Source: "TiK ToK" | Speaker: Ke$ha
"The pen is mightier than the sword."Source: Richelieu | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"The record shows I took the blows and did it my way."Source: "My Way" | Speaker: Frank Sinatra
"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"There can be only one."Source: Highlander | Speaker: The Kurgan
"They're here."Source: Poltergeist | Speaker: Carol Anne Freeling
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."Source: Speech to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta (1864) | Speaker: William Tecumseh Sherman
"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott
"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"We are the champions, my friends, and we'll keep on fighting 'til the end."Source: We Are the Champions | Speaker: Queen
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us."Source: Speech at the Audubon Ballroom | Speaker: Malcolm X
"We don't need no badges."Source: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Speaker: Dobbs
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."Source: Letter to William Henry Harrison | Author: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
"We've got to fight until we overcome."Source: Ballot or the Bullet | Speaker: Malcolm X
"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Katharine Hepburn
"What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."Source: To Be or Not to Be | Speaker: Colonel Ehrhardt
"What I do have is a particular set of skills."Source: Taken | Speaker: Bryan Mills
"What we've got here…is failure to communicate."Source: Cool Hand Luke | Speaker: Captain
"When in the course of human events…"Source: Declaration of Independence | Author: Thomas Jefferson
"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, "No, I went to films.""Source: Interview with Andrew Walker of BBC News | Speaker: Quentin Tarantino
"When you control the mail...you control information."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Newman
"Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?"Source: "Holding Out for a Hero" | Speaker: Bonnie Tyler
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"Who is that girl I see?"Source: "Reflection" | Speaker: Mulan
"Who loves ya, baby?"Source: Kojak | Speaker: Theo Kojak
"Wii (We) would like to play."Source: Wii Commercial | Author: Leo Burnett
"With great power comes great responsibility."Source: Spider-Man | Speaker: Ben Parker
"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar
"You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God."Source: Malice | Speaker: Dr. Jed Hill
"You better work."Source: "Supermodel" | Speaker: RuPaul
"You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh."Source: Umbrella | Speaker: Rihanna
"You can't handle the truth!"Source: A Few Good Men | Speaker: Col. Nathan R. Jessup
"You come at the king, you best not miss."Source: The Wire | Speaker: Omar Little
"You look like my next mistake."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"You talkin' to me?"Source: Taxi Driver | Speaker: Travis Bickle
"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway
"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor
"You're fired."Source: The Apprentice | Speaker: Donald Trump
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."Source: Body Heat | Speaker: Matty Walker