Stagflation 1970s Quotes

#1. Small talk plunged to its death around him.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved.

Meg Wolitzer

#3. I watched 'I Love the '80s' on VH1.

Hayley Orrantia

#4. The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Steven Rattner

#5. If I could sprinkle some hopes over all of you, they would include these: I hope you each find a meatball in the spaghetti of your life; I hope your talcum powder never empties, that your spirit is like a cork and that you all live a thousand, thousand lives. Huzzah!

Sharon Creech

#6. Intellect can be helpful, but it needs consciousness to be its master; otherwise it can behave in a very stupid way. It can misunderstand things, it can misrepresent things. It needs a master to guide it, to give it a sense of direction. That master is your being.

Osho

#7. With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in every heart that knows we can live in a perfect world in shades of Michelangelo I hear songs of children echo in the sky I hear songs of children a tomorrow so bright!

Belinda Carlisle

#8. Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Chuck Klosterman

#9. Sometimes kissing is better than sex. Especially kissing someone for the first time

Bert McCracken

#10. A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Henry Adams

#11. Fair-minded people make a concerted effort to pull their own weight rather than living off the hard work of others.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.

Mark Twain