When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really…

When I look back through the 1980s and 1990s, those were some of the funniest experiences I had and, sometimes, some of the most…

— Ted Waitt

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

— James Grant

The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would…

— Shiv Nadar

I haven't had fun since the 1980s!

— Frank Skinner

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

— Ma Jian

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become…

— Edward P. Jones

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

— Pedro Almodovar

The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.

— Winona Ryder

The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.

— John Grant

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

— Jerry Brown

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

— Don Winslow

“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.”

— Ernest Cline

“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

— Radha Ravi