Seventies Quotes
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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
— Don Rickles
How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?
— Claire Messud
I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.
— Elle Fanning
As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
— Donald Hall
As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
— Grace Paley
If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.
— Mike Lowell
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
The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep.
— Lemmy Kilmister
The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.
— Anika Noni Rose
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
— Kelly Wearstler
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.
— Jan Koum
Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about five lifetimes...all fictionalized in my five books.
— Laurel-Rain Snow
I loved the seventies.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
— Will Self
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
— Friedrich Engels
We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.
— Gillian Flynn
One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
— Chris Roberson
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
— Tom Waits
By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
— Michael Caine
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
— Jill Lepore
Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head?
— Christine Zolendz
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
No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.
— Paul Michael Glaser
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
— J. Courtney Sullivan
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
— Marc Maron
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
— Robert Webb
I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
— Kacey Musgraves
I can't even remember when the Seventies was.
— Robbie Keane
In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
— Susumu Tonegawa
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
— Dick Van Dyke
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
— Richard Rosen
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
— Rachel Kushner
The door opened and Decker was looking down at a small, balding man with a gray beard and wearing dark glasses. He was well into his seventies.
— David Baldacci
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
— Rob Sheffield
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
— Doris Lessing
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Ted Bundy," I said. "He killed thirty or so people around the country in the seventies - he's the one they invented the term 'serial killer' for.
— Dan Wells
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
— Khaled Hosseini
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
— Jerry Saltz
I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
— Gabrielle Aplin
People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
— Joe Cocker
I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
— Jack O'Brien
I haven't had any action since the late seventies, so don't make me jealous. I don't think my heart can handle an erection.
— Elle Aycart
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
— Tariq Ali
In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.
— Ozzy Osbourne
The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.
— Rachel Kushner
In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.
— Tom Ford
I bet there's air-conditioning in heaven," I said. "Maybe it's just the perfect temperature - low seventies with a breeze?" Josh said.
— Heather Demetrios
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
— Barry Manilow
Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
— Andy Kindler
It might have been the seventies, but if you're old enough for a moustache you're too old for strawberry-patterned trousers.
— Jo Wood
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
— David Bailey
I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
The sixties - most of which took place in the seventies...
— John Thorndike
People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
— Lady Gaga
Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
— Winifred Holtby
I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.
— Ellie Goulding
Get transported back to the seventies !
— Tom Evans
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
Oh, to be seventy again!
— Georges Clemenceau
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
— Douglas Coupland
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.
— Paul Daniels
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
— Felicity Jones
Although he could have been wearing a seventies lounge suit and she probably would have drooled over the polyester.
— J.R. Ward
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
— Siri Hustvedt
Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
— Ben Hecht
I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
— Gregory Keyes
I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.
— Francine Du Plessix Gray
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
— Confucius
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
— Paul Goldberger
My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
— Jerry Hall
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
— John Oates