Quotes About Flappers

#1. Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.

Ray Romano

#2. What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.

Annie Lennox

#3. brought home half a dozen flappers, killed with the rifle if I had been out after large game, or with the revolver if I had merely been among the cattle, - each duck, in the latter case, representing the expenditure of a vast number of cartridges.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

Laura Moriarty

#5. College girls on the road! One-night stands! Lee felt like an Austro-Hungarian emperor attended on his deathbed by flappers. He felt them stealing his life - literally going back in time and taking, through their incoherent lifestyles, the little he had struggled so hard to attain.

Nell Zink

#6. It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Andre Gide

#7. Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

H. Richard Niebuhr

#8. The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

Joe Namath

#9. May I ask a question, Lucy?"
"Go right ahead!"
"Just why do you want to draw this line all the way around the world?"
"Well, you know the old saying, Charlie Brown ... You have to draw the line someplace!

Charles M. Schulz

#10. The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#11. A camel in distress isn't a shy creature. It doesn't hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn't phone up old friends and sob at them. It doesn't mope, or write long soulful poems about Life and how dreadful it is when seen from a bedsitter. It doesn't know what angst is.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Right away I fell in love with him because he was so good looking. And because he was alone with ten women around him

Judith Mackrell

#13. The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Keith Rabois

#14. Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

Kyra Davis

#15. And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged.

Judith Mackrell

#16. You could make people love you, she discovered, by keeping them entertained.

Judith Mackrell