1970s And 80s Quotes

#1. 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and ... obsequious.

Matt Groening

#2. We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#3. When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#4. I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

Hermann E. Ott

#5. The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

Noah Feldman

#6. The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed.

Lee Kuan Yew

#7. The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Roger Mudd

#8. Poetry calls into question what it means to be human

Sandra Alcosser

#9. Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

Marvin Shanken

#10. I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Katy Perry

#11. Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

Rand Paul

#12. The mighty Rain
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.

William C. Bryant

#13. I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hoskins

#14. Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.

Barry Diller

#15. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.

Nicole Mones

#16. I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

Brian Skerry

#17. I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).

Charles Stross

#18. Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.

Conor McGregor

#19. I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

Anna Kournikova

#20. I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.

Big Sean

#21. You gain by giving - so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.

Tom Arnold

#23. What does "worth" mean ... ? It means that you leave the world a better place than when you found it.

Terry Pratchett