Top 1200 Victorian Era Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.

I don't want to stay in the graveyard era of music.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.

I was kind of like the Tito Santana of my era.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.

Hopefully my era can help build the game.

The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

The period between 1980 and 1995 was my era.

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.

I'm as talented as they come. I would have success in any era.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.

If it's one entity you don't want no drama with in this era, it's black women.

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention.

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.'

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

I don't have a collection, but I have a thing with jackets. I really like jackets. Whether it's an '80s motorbike jacket, or a Victorian jacket. I could wear the same jeans every day for months, but the jacket would be the thing that would change a lot.

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

We live in a different era now. And thank God for that.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids.

Every previous era looks innocent.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

The 70s and the 80s are the tastiest era for us.

There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.

This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.

The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father.

The 'Fresh Prince' era is sort of my thing.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.