Memorable 80s Quotes & Sayings

I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women. — Patti Smith

To me, fiction writing at any length, in any form, is a feat of radical compression: take the sprawling chaos of human experience, run it through the sieve of perception, and distill it into something comparatively miniscule that somehow, miraculously, illuminates the vast complexity around it. I don't think about short stories any differently than I do about novels or novellas or even memoirs. But the smaller scale of a story is important; the distillation must be even more extreme in order to succeed. It also must be purer; there is almost no room for mistakes. — Jennifer Egan

The Klamath tribe of Native Americans who witnessed the eruption believed it was a fierce battle between Llao, the spirit of the underworld, and Skell, the spirit of the sky. — Cheryl Strayed

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. — Hunter S. Thompson

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. — Edgar Degas

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder. — Steve Wiebe

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact. — Dan Quisenberry

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? — Henry Bromell

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured. — C.S. Lewis

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning ... as does death. — Dean Koontz

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field. — Brett Favre

Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction. — Zubin Mehta

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well. — Vance Joy