No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on…

Nostalgia is partly illusion in that we remember things differently as we get older, etc. But that doesn't mean, when historians look back on…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she…

— Hugh Hefner

“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that…

— Sara Sheridan

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker.…

— Clark Zlotchew

“Disneyland was one perfect answer. It provided, an almost sacred space where it is permissible and safe to let one's guard down, take a…

— Leslie Le Mon

“Nixon had sought the treatment of a psychiatrist throughout the 1950s.”

— Mike Colapietro Roger Stone

We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-class American family consisted of a father with…

— Peter Schiff

I am a product of the 1950s.

— Debra Jo Rupp

What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of…

— Elvis Mitchell

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in…

— George Emil Palade

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

— John Charles Polanyi

“The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and…

— James T. Patterson

Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie…

— Tab Hunter