Seventies Quote by Will Self Download Open image “If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.” — Will Self ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Seventies
I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile. — Will Self Copy Share Image
To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties! — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking… — Paul Michael Glaser Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she was saying… — Will Self Copy Share Image
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y… — Will Self Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I… — Richard DeVos Copy Share Image
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. — Morihei Ueshiba 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