Top 23 Quotes About Roaring Twenties
#1. I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
Judith Jamison
#2. I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
Hugh Hefner
#3. I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.
Hugh Hefner
#4. You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
James Cagney
#5. When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.
Martin Scorsese
#6. There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
Ian Somerhalder
#7. The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
J. Paul Getty
#8. If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.
Bernhard Riemann
#9. An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.
Elvis Presley
#13. The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#14. most of its existence, Mussolini's regime had not been anti-Semitic, and early on, the Duce had explicitly criticized Hitler's racism - probably in part because Nazism did not include modern Italians in its pantheon of Aryan supermen.
Tom Reiss
#15. It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
Fannie Flagg
#16. You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
Craig Venter
#17. Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for "suntan" is "burn.
Mira Grant
#18. Sex in the twenties is like a helicopter raring to take off vertically, but twenty years later, it is like a vintage plane roaring and racing to a reluctant take off!
Rajuda
#19. I am sure many of you know that the veil can be very thin-that there are people over there who are pulling for us-people who have faith in us and who have great hopes for us, who are hoping and praying that we will measure up-our loved ones who have passed on
Ezra Taft Benson
#20. People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.
Raymond E. Feist
#21. I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
Manolo Blahnik
#22. Aw, naw, ain't sayin that. You do what you need an ain't try telling you no, but ... takin you to bed, want you there, not just your body. An want you knowin it's me. Love you, Chess. Dig?
Stacia Kane
#23. But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.
R.A. MacAvoy
