Eighty Quotes - Page 7

• When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

  Dennis Hopper

  Looks, Sixty

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• The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.

  Nicola Horlick

  Cash, Eras, Rich

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• The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

  Steven Seagal

  Home, Dark, Night

  "Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

  John Gould

  Book, Sky, Two

  John Gould (1873). “An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain”, p.4

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• ...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
  For when they happen at a riper age,
  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
  And wonder Providence is not more sage.
  Adversity is the first path to truth:
  He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
  Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
  Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

  Ezra Pound

  Ignorance, Moments, Natural

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• There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.

  Sebastian Junger

  Couple, Ocean, Past

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• Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Men, Self, Luxury

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• I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

  Jonathan Demme

  Vocabulary, People, Singing

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Men, Stories

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.166, Ballantine Books

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• I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

  Bill Watterson

  Order, Editors, Ideas

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• Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mother, Baby

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• So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

  Chris LeDoux

  Skills, Luck, Twenties

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• I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me

  Iggy Pop

  Illegal Things, Car, Riding

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• In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

  Grace Jones

  Fun, Hard Work, Thinking

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• As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.

  John Brown Gordon

  War, Army, Slavery

  John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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• The name came from, erm... us all just agreeing on a name that we liked. There was talk of Swans at first, but there was already a band called Swans, way back in the eighties. An American band. So we thought, well, we can't have them, and I think Andy said, "well what about Doves?" We ruminated it around the three of us and went, well, it's not so bad, it's all right.

  Jimi Goodwin

  Thinking, Swans, Names

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• The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.

  Duncan Jones

  Growing Up, People, Fiction

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• The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Rap, Rocks, House

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Hurt, Fun, Taken

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Growing Up, Men, Blow

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.

  Grace Paley

  Father, Kids, Eye

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• Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Ladders, Showing Up, Enough

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