Living In The 80s Quotes & Sayings

There are too many Dudleys already in this world — Alison Weir

One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know? — Richard Meltzer

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. — Siri Hustvedt

Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life. — David Sax

Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all. — Greg Gorman

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. — Alfred De Vigny

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute. — Edmund White

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. — Helena Bonham Carter

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood. — Junot Diaz

Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice - all of it. Any way that I was ever influenced by him really comes down to small, pale imitations compared to the real thing. There is a fearlessness about him. Watching him at Wembley Stadium with 70,000 people, he looks as comfortable as if he were in his own living room. — Lori Majewski

It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater. — Charles Kimbrough

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents. — Julianne Hough

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we've already got them in Hell. — Geoffrey Wood

Man has been going through three kinds of wars. One is with nature; another is with other people and third is with himself. — Santosh Kalwar

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way. — George Herbert

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard! — Evangeline Lilly

Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph. — Jaeda DeWalt

It's like the rules switch for a beach and everyone suddenly knows how to behave like an advanced human — Dakota Lane

I was born to serve. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are ready to turn and twist the facts until they bear no resemblance to the original thing. — C.S. Lewis

Actors are all narcissists. — Gillian Jacobs

Edward: "Take that, you beef-witted varlet!"
Gracie: "Who are you calling beef-witted?" she laughed at him. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father stank of elderberries! — Cynthia Hand