Top 274 Eighties Quotes & Sayings

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.

If I think back to the eighties, my methods weren't conventional, but they got results.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

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

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

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

I think there's a way to do classic songs and produce them electronically, and I feel like the eighties did a lot of that.

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

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

I did feel a bit of an outsider in the Eighties. But there was a market for me out there. New Romantics were totally different.

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

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

I was in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain - the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham.

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

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

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

We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

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.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

We love Eighties music.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can shout and dance. The best of the Eighties was club church.

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

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

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

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

In the Eighties I was brash. I said things and it upset a lot of people.

I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

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

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

My problem with eighties songs is they take too long to get to the chorus.

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.

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

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

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

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

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.

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.

I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.

...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.

I love Eighties rock.

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

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.

After a series of jobs that I prefer not to recall, I was hired in the early eighties as fashion editor of 'New York' magazine.

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

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

In the late eighties, we decided to rework the 1979 hit 'El Lute' and name it 'Mandela.'

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

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

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

And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.

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

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there.