1950s Quote by Sara Sheridan Download Open image ““The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.”” — Sara Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1950s 20th century 50s Era Fifties History
“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester. — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in… — George Emil Palade Copy Share Image
What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of the crossbreeding of the suffering-from-gigantism movies of the 1950s and the 1990 B-picture classic 'Tremors.' — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
“Disneyland was one perfect answer. It provided, an almost sacred space where it is permissible and safe to let one's guard down, take a… — Leslie Le Mon Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked,… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share
“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“It's not a real place, or a place that you can stay for long; it's a somewhere-over-the-rainbow archetype but rooted in genuine emotions. No matter what Guests' care might be, when they step onto Main Street they enter an evocation of the ideal home town. This is, in a sense, the 'home' to which Dorothy Gale wanted to return. Main… — Leslie Le Mon Copy Share
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
