Arbitrary Quote by Lester Bangs

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

— Panos Cosmatos

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.

— Olivia Palermo

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in…

— Bob Dylan

“The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't…

— Sara Sheridan

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades…

— Paul Kantner

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

— Dennis Hopper

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

— David Bailey

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be…

— Joe R. Lansdale

The 1950s is my favourite era.

— Ella Purnell

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the…

— Andrew Sean Greer

On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.

— Quentin S. Crisp

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath -…

— Lynne Reid Banks