80s Retro Quotes

#1. VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.

Debbi Peterson

#2. I'm a TV addict.

Shanola Hampton

#3. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus

#4. As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Mary Higgins Clark

#5. I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

Britta Phillips

#6. I believe in a personal God; everything I do, He takes personally.

Shalom Auslander

#7. Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority.

Bradford Winters

#8. He had never seemed breakable before, but in that moment, he was entirely fragile, and there was something beautiful in his sadness; something raw.

Peter Monn

#9. Marky! Pull up your pants!

Penny Marshall

#10. There's a difference between music that's original and music that's retro. A lot of bands now are kind of retro 70s whether it's Kraut-rock or ... I've heard people suggest that we're kind of retro 80s.

Bill Orcutt

#11. None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

Denise Mina

#12. The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

Jay Leno

#13. Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis.

Ayelet Waldman

#14. In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Steve Albini

#15. Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Kevin Keegan

#16. You have bigger balls than some men I know.

Carolyn Arnold