Seventies Quotes - Page 16

• For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

  Paul Goldberger

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.  If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied.  For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  Dan Graham

  Religious, Art, Rocks

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Boston, Berries

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

  Justin Bartha

  Character, Interesting, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

  Britt Ekland

  Son, Long, Healthy

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• It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

  Lou Gramm

  Down And, Sticks, Moved

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• They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

  Rudyard Kipling

  Nature, Rain, Years

  'Rewards and Fairies' (1910) 'The Way through the Woods'

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• I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

  David Cassidy

  Kids, Years, Audience

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• I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

  David Cassidy

  Years, Numbers, Metamorphosis

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• I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

  Elle Fanning

  Necklaces, Way, Used

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• We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Age, Forget, Stills

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• The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

  Paul Fry

  Landscape, Salad, Rediscovery

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Eight

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. And, sometimes in very, very different places, because we all come from somewhere, especially here in Israel.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, Years, Lasts

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• [Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

  Emily Barton

  Crazy, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Book, America, Library

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• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  Wendell Phillips

  Given, Statesmen, Presidency

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.309

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• I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Baseball, Rip, Believe

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• The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.

  James Laver

  Beautiful, Smart, Years

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• If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

  Maude Royden

  Inspirational, Women, Want

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• The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

  William Maxwell

  Past, Views, Curiosity

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage

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• The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

  George Vaillant

  Years, Twenties, Dollars

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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