I'm really a very fifties housewife.

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

— Peter Marino

My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy…

— Eva Longoria

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of…

— Philip Treacy

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows.…

— Duane Michals

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the…

— Edmund White

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being…

— Chuck Berry

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

— Hannah Arendt

“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.”

— Steven Magee

“Of course, there is a little more to it than that. We of the frailer sex have to have some wild hope, something to…

— John Updike

My mum and grandmother didn't start their menopause until their early fifties.

— Amanda Redman

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

— Robert Gottlieb

It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.

— Todd Haynes

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

— Rosamund Pike

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

— Twyla Tharp

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

— Roger Moore