There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain,… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping?… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade.… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties. — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
“The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was… — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper,… — David Kynaston Copy Share Image
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
“And for those like Norma and Macky, born and raised in the forties and fifties, it was such a drastic change from… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
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