All Quotes

The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
‐‐ Helen Wills Moody

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.
‐‐ Alan Furst

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
‐‐ Vic Snyder

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'
‐‐ George Lois

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.
‐‐ James Fenton

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.
‐‐ George Grove

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.
‐‐ Alan Gerry

The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

The 1970s crystallized the service mantra as we now know it.
‐‐ Bruce Nordstrom

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
‐‐ David Miliband

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell

The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
‐‐ Dale T. Mortensen

The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
‐‐ Lisa Tuttle

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
‐‐ Maggie Q

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
‐‐ Bing Gordon

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
‐‐ Jack Welch

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
‐‐ Michel Patini

The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.
‐‐ Edwin Meese

The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
‐‐ George P. Shultz

The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.
‐‐ Tony Verna

The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.
‐‐ Donald Trump

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.
‐‐ Skylar Astin

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
‐‐ Barry Eichengreen

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.
‐‐ Rob Simmons

The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.
‐‐ Mary Jo White

The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
‐‐ Kate Williams

The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.
‐‐ Judith Miller

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
‐‐ Byron White

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.
‐‐ Jay Inslee

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.
‐‐ Dan Gable

The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
‐‐ Patricia Hewitt

The 200 m. is not my best event, and it's something I am learning.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

The 200 m. is the event I want to get better at.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.
‐‐ Allyson Felix

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
‐‐ Tom Winnifrith

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
‐‐ Donna Brazile