Seventies Quotes - Page 21

• I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

  John Scalzi

  Army, Two, Wife

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

  George Packer

  War, Party, Independent

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• She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

  Steven Levenkron

  Cutting, Two, Mind

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• I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. “Been a long time since you visited, miss?” “About seventy years,” Hazel said. The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Glasses, Mirrors

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• There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Twenties, Lucky

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.118, Penguin

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• A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Drug, Atmosphere

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• [Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.

  William Goldman

  Wish, Female, Giants

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• The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Years, Finals

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

  Kim Harrison

  Taken, World, Extinction

  Kim Harrison (2010). “White Witch, Black Curse”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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• I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

  Laurence Housman

  May, Young, Dies

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• And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Uncomfortable, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7414, Delphi Classics

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• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  J.K. Simmons

  College, Degrees, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth.

  James Patterson

  Hands, Looks, Mouths

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• I died last night. Seventy years too young.

  Colin Thompson

  Night, Years, Lasts

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• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Ideas, Acting

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• I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

  Philip Levine

  Dramatic, Imagine, Hard

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

  Mark Zupan

  Salad, Tuna, Bucks

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• In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Dust, Clouds

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• If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

  Jonathan Banks

  Stuff, Tvs, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, Marijuana, Class

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• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

  Ezra Pound

  Should Have, Years, Able

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• If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

  Mike Lowell

  Block, Failing, Percent

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• Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

  Ben Hecht

  Waste, Products, Written

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

  Mardy Grothe

  Baseball, Games, Play

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