For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of…

There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.

— Mike Watt

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that…

— Brendan O'Carroll

I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and I used…

— Giles Deacon

I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in…

— Lauren Weisberger

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it…

— Alissa Quart

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

— Kim Harrison

“Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard]”

— Stephen Maitland-Lewis

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses…

— Mary Pope Osborne

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

— Peter Ustinov

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered…

— Dan Brown

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion.…

— Norbert Bisky

Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

— Brigitte Bardot

Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel,…

— Naomi Ragen

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker