The Fifties Quotes
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The Fifties Quotes & Sayings
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I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved.
— Elle Fanning
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
In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters.
— Ian Pattison
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
— Pierce Brosnan
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
— Rosemary Clooney
Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.
— Rick Perlstein
When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!
— Dennis Hopper
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
— Nora Ephron
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
— Steve Sailer
In the fifties ... we were so busy being cool that we didn't know how to say the word love
— Diane Di Prima
He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
— Kim Cattrall
The hotel looked as though it had been built back in the fifties, when everything seemed designed to be quickly turned into a bomb shelter.
— Carolyn McCray
Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.
— Dov Davidoff
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
— Pete Seeger
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
— Mario Testino
Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
— Mona Simpson
As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
— Martin McGuinness
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
— Martin Freeman
The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .
— David Baldacci
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
— Anne Waldman
Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going.
— Sara Marie Hogg
I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.
— Richard Dreyfuss
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
— John Malkovich
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
— Umberto Eco
I fought for peace in the fifties.
— Pete Seeger
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
— Robert Gottlieb
So I turned on the tube (throwback slang from the Nifty Fifties; televisions no longer have tubes) and channel-surfed for awhile. On
— Stephen King
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
— Oscar Hijuelos
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
— William Standish Knowles
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
— Nastassja Kinski
We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.
— Randal Kleiser
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
— Mary Augusta Ward
I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.
— Rosamund Pike
