1930s Quotes · Page 2

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

— Brian Selznick

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

— King Albert II

All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.

— Mikis Theodorakis

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

— Caroline Lucas

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

— Judy Woodruff

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic…

— William Gurstelle

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

— Christian Louboutin

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.

— Roger Stone

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed…

— Jerry Robinson

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman…

— Tom Glazer

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies…

— Richard Dawkins

“Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above…

— Elizabeth Wein

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about…

— Noam Chomsky

The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s…

— Henry Rollins

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and…

— Mary Garden

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages…

— Mark Zandi

We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s.…

— Rafael Correa

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy…

— Thomas Sowell

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society…

— Barry Eichengreen

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what…

— William J. Duiker

Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a…

— Eileen Claussen

The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in…

— James Spann

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have…

— Bill Ayers

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning…

— Paul Saffo

When I was a kid I was a big fan of the Universal Monsters movies of the 1930's and the 1940's. I…

— Robbie Rist

Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from…

— Robert Pattinson

If there ever was a time for a cool, rational and unemotional series of responses on the part of people in Europe,…

— Anthony Glees

“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their…

— Christopher Hitchens

Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the…

— Michael Tobias

“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by…

— George Orwell

I think that Democrats have to think through answers we haven't in the past: How we are going to create those jobs?…

— Neera Tanden

“There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.”

— Margery Allingham

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

— Albert Maltz

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

— Gregory Corso

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

— James Meade

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky

“An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]”

— Maria Martin

I'm very into Louise Brooks, a 1930s icon. I also love Dona Drake. She's a beauty icon and also super smart.

— Taylor Russell