Eighties Movie Quotes

#1. With a groan, he let his head fall into his hands. His life was officially a bad eighties movie. Without the parachute pants.

Charlie Cochet

#2. I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

Robyn Carr

#3. What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

George Washington

#4. What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.

Kobayashi Issa

#5. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.

Julie Powell

#6. He and I together was a terrible idea. We were both unstable, we were both shattered, and there was no getting around it. He was thunder, I was lightning, and we were seconds away from creating the perfect storm.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#7. I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn't happen. In the Nineties, I worked a lot, but it was kind of, 'Get out there and dig and find things.' Then I guess 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven' were referred to as my comeback.

Dennis Quaid

#8. Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

Barbara Corcoran

#9. If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor.
I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown like chaff. All that was left was the taste of salt.

Sarah Micklem

#10. Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

Gillian Flynn

#11. For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#12. I . . . uh . . . thinking about the time you got mad at me for . . . trampling that cockroach. Then remembered how you lit into Goodwin with that bat. I found it funny.

Karen Witemeyer

#13. Happy are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed."5

Edward H. Burtt Jr.

#14. I think I should be on the main stage. I don't think I'm an undercard candidate. I think the others should drop out.

Renee Montagne

#15. A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.

S.A. Tawks

#16. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Oswald Chambers

#17. Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.

Alexandre Aja