Eighty Quotes - Page 2

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

Peter York

Art, Class, Symbolism

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In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since.

Peter York

People, Culture, Deregulation

"This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Ronald Reagan

Humorous, Air, Tree

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Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

Louis Schwartzberg

Eye, Light, Musical

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Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

James Howard Kunstler

Depressing, Years, America

Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

Tobin Bell

New York, Names, Roles

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Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.

Terry Pratchett

Rain, Believe, Flames

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That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your heart and everything you have into it. Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.

Jason Clarke

Jobs, Heart, Successful

Source: www.esquire.com

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When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

William J. Clinton

War, Hate, Mean

Source: www.foxnews.com

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Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.

Garth Ennis

Character, Design, Guy

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Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Carol Roth

Company, Percent

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I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

Andy Pettitte

Couple, Eight, Mph

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What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

Charlotte Bronte

People, Despise, Knows

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Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Helen Van Slyke

Lying, People, Age

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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

Gertrude Atherton

Nursing, Occupation, Chance

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So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?

Sue Margolis

Marriage, Mother, Thinking

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In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

Katharine Whitehorn

Mother, Fate, Plot

Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Mark Twain

Children, Book, Years

Mark Twain (2015). “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.7, Booklassic

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Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Class, Down And, Rich

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For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

Pablo Casals

Past, Thinking, Years

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At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Ruth Gordon

Lying, Who Cares, Looks

Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

Betty White

Years, Age, Growing

Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

Sojourner Truth

Rights, Years, Ice

Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years ago, and a proliferation of architectural excesses for which many people can and should be blamed.

Dervla Murphy

Years, Cities, People

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[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

Jessica Hagedorn

Blood, Church, Loyal

Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

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