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As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. — Donald Hall

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. — Salvador Dali

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is. — Tama Janowitz

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties. — Freddie Prinze Jr.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus. — Will Self

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. — Rick Riordan

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties! — Dennis Hopper

With a groan, he let his head fall into his hands. His life was officially a bad eighties movie. Without the parachute pants. — Charlie Cochet

The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor. — Nicola Horlick

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. — Jill Lepore

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that. — Chino Moreno

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. — Russell Banks

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties. — Paul Begala

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. — Brad Holland

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. — Florence King

These were the early Clinton years but the economy was still sucking an eighties cock ... — Junot Diaz

Has anything happened in Australia since the eighties? I mean, besides Nemo being reunited with his dad? — Wayne Gladstone

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music. — Dan Stevens

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. — David Bowie

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost! — David Bischoff

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. — Dick Van Dyke

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations. — Kemp Muhl

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties. — Miuccia Prada

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties. — Gabrielle Aplin

My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use! — Jane Levy

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11. — Mark Steyn

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone. — Corin Tucker

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. — Donatella Versace

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals. — Rush Limbaugh

My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54. — Liberty Ross

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience. — Aimee Mullins

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! — Vivian Campbell

It's better to swallow pride than blood. — David Bischoff

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. — Marc Maron

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties. — Harry Shearer

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. — Kim Wilde

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties. — Barry Manilow

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties. — Andy Kindler

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. — Sara Blakely

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. — Rowan Atkinson

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed. — Sirio Maccioni

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back? — Lexa Doig

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin. — Michael Azerrad

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music. — Jeffrey Tucker

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties. — Dan Stevens

It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs? — Daniel Amos

What are you watching?"
One shoulder rose in a shrug. "Looks like an informercial for music of the eighties. Thinking about buying it. — J. Lynn

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

She came back from the eighties to save mankind. Martha Quinn is our only hope. — Joe Hill

Steady had always suspected Ethan "Ozzie" Sykes, despite his constant joking and bad taste in eighties music, was one tough motherfucker. — Julie Ann Walker

This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know," said Ray. "My mums a plumber. — David Bischoff

You break his heart," Watts told Amanda, "I'll break your face! — David Bischoff

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. — Kirk Hammett

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. — Serge Lang