Rear Window Quotes

• Intelligence.  Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

  Thelma Ritter

  Race, Window, Trouble

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

  Thelma Ritter

  Killing, Polite

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• I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

  John Michael Hayes

  Men, Long, Focus

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• We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

  Thelma Ritter

  Philosophy, Race, People

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

  John Michael Hayes

  Race, People, House

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• ... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.

  Karen Tayleur

  Heart, Car, Finals

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• Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Interrogation Techniques, Ideas, Faces

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• When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

  Thelma Ritter

  Couple, Men, Two

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away... I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in Dannemora.'

  Thelma Ritter

  Love, Fun, Father

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

  John Michael Hayes

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

  Liam Gallagher

  Oasis, Discipline, Superhero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

  Mose Allison

  Oasis, Superhero, Mercy

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• For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.

  Will Oldham

  Long, People, Desire

  Interview with Mike Powell, pitchfork.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I'm not much into rear window ethics.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Ethics, Window

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