The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time. — Nanette Lepore Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a… — Eileen Claussen Copy Share Image
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image