Fifties Quotes

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The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow… — David Gerrold
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis… — George Mikes
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. — David Foster Wallace
We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties. — Randal Kleiser
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Claudia Roth
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of… — Camille Paglia
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what… — John Szarkowski
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles
Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties. — Ian Mcewan
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them… — Joe Queenan
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of… — Geoffrey Rush
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. — Nastassja Kinski
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the… — Mary Wesley
Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's… — Ann Druyan
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the… — John Lahr
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the… — Robert Jay Lifton
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not… — Jennifer James
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. — Rosemary Clooney
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the… — Bernardo Bertolucci

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