I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster…

There's a certain type of person drawn to the gangster world, and they're generally young men who were predisposed to violence and risk-taking, who…

— Terence Winter

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the…

— Quincy Jones

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

— Terence Winter

I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s…

— Stephen Hough

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have…

— Lauren Bacall

“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our…

— john darnton

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period.…

— Tony Bennett

“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

“Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned…

— Dita Von Teese

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the…

— Malcolm Cowley

“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald