80s Quotes - Page 10

• As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Social Values, Government, 80s And 90s

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

  Persis Khambatta

  Stars, People, Gone

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• The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

  Paul Kantner

  Real, Way, Force

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• The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

  Rob Lowe

  Teenager, Successful, Thinking

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• Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

  John Mellencamp

  Music, Country, Men

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• Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Mean, Perfect

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• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Mood

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• My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

  Ronnie Wood

  Uncles, Dad, Two

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• I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.

  Simon Le Bon

  Sorry, Party, Hangover

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• Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

  Ronnie Wood

  Time, Growing Up, Vices

  "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

  Ann Wilson

  Night, Two, Long

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• When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Glowing, World

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• I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.

  George Carlin

  Florida, Age, Temperature

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• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Father, Bird

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• When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

  John Barrowman

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

  Roger Mudd

  Sea, Judgement, Television

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• I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

  Jordana Brewster

  Fashion, School, White

  "Jordana Brewster Talks Swimsuits, Reveals Leatherface's Human Side". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Video, Way

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• But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

  Julianne Hough

  Records, Trust Me, Stores

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

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• Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Cooking, Kitchen, Dining

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

  Heather Morris

  Together, Legs, Way

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

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• Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids.

  Dorian Yates

  Steroid, Cautious

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• There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz

  Lonely, Dark, Thinking

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz (2011). “Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Jobs, 80s And 90s

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• We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Years, Obsessed, Behinds

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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