1930s Quotes · Page 2

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

— Margery Allingham

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

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

— Albert Maltz

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public…

— William Gibson

Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in…

— Jennifer Lee

Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you…

— Roy Spencer

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail…

— Yves Saint Laurent

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality…

— Robert Ardrey

A lot of my designs are inspired by the 1930s, when people were fabulous at dressing up. Then it just all kind…

— Jenny Packham

“During the first part of the 1930s, Spain saw the fall of its monarchy, its first democracy, a major revolutionary insurrection, an…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by…

— Roald Dahl

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

It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's…

— Karen Abbott

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later…

— George Stigler

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by…

— Noam Chomsky

When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,…

— Doris Lessing

The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a…

— F. William Engdahl

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British…

— Philip French

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

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

— Michael Tobias

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Robbie Rist

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

— Paul Saffo

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

— Robert Pattinson

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Colin Firth

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

— Judy Woodruff

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

— Caroline Lucas

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

— Fiona Bruce

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

— Brian Selznick

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

— Leo Baekeland

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

— King Albert II