Respect Quotes
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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
"Bond. James Bond."Source: Dr. No | Speaker: James Bond
"Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour."Source: Ecclesiastes 10:1 | Author: Narrator
"Did you ever know that you're my hero?"Source: Wind Beneath My Wings | Speaker: Bette Midler
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"God'll get you for that."Source: Maude | Speaker: Maude Findlay
"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch
"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick"Source: The Perfect Husband | Author: Ogden Nash
"Hey, lady!"Source: The Ladies Man | Speaker: Herbert H. Heebert
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci
"I ain't no hollaback girl."Source: Hollaback Girl | Speaker: Gwen Stefani
"I am not an animal!"Source: Elephant Man | Speaker: John Merrick
"I am your number one fan."Source: Misery | Speaker: Annie Wilkes
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I don't want no scrub."Source: No Scrubs | Speaker: TLC
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
"I won't be ignored, Dan!"Source: Fatal Attraction | Speaker: Alex Forrest
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
"I'm pretty fly for a white guy."Source: "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" | Speaker: The Offspring
"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Author: J. K. Rowling
"Kiss my grits!"Source: Alice | Speaker: Flo
"Ladies and gentlemen…The Beatles!"Source: The Ed Sullivan Show | Speaker: Ed Sullivan
"Let them eat cake!"Source: Marie Antoinette | Speaker: Marie Antoinette
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Match me, Sidney."Source: Sweet Smell of Success | Speaker: J.J. Hunsecker
"May the Force be with you."Source: Star Wars | Speaker: Han Solo
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"Mom always liked you best."Source: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Speaker: Tommy Smothers
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."Source: Declaration of Sentiments, The Liberator Magazine | Author: William Lloyd Garrison
"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."Source: Game of Thrones | Speaker: Tyrion Lannister
"Note to self: After a long day at work, I don't need to see that!"Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish as Aunt Sassy
"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri
"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"Shut up and deal."Source: The Apartment | Speaker: Fran Kubelik
"The President—whoever he is—has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody."Source: Farewell Address (1953) | Speaker: Harry S. Truman
"They call me Mister Tibbs!"Source: In the Heat of the Night | Speaker: Detective Virgil Tibbs
"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."Source: It's a Man's Man's Man's World | Speaker: James Brown
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Two thumbs up."Source: Siskel & Ebert & the Movies | Speaker: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert
"We live in the best of all possible worlds."Source: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil | Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
"We've got a situation."Source: Jersey Shore | Speaker: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."Source: My Ántonia | Author: Willa Cather
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Yas queen!"Source: Broad City | Speaker: Ilana Wexler
"You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God."Source: Malice | Speaker: Dr. Jed Hill
"You look mahvelous!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Fernando Lamas
"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're good. You're very good."Source: The Maltese Falcon | Speaker: Sam Spade
"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May