50s Quotes

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? (Robert Sternberg)
There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young. View quote
George Thorogood
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. View quote
Paul Kantner
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music. View quote
Zac Hanson
When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job. View quote
Matt Taibbi
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about. View quote
Keith Waterhouse
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. View quote
Annette Funicello
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer. View quote
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality. View quote
Christopher Lloyd
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. (Michael Fox)
In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America. View quote
Naomi Wolf
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. View quote
Bill Condon
In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day. View quote
Helen Reddy
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. View quote
Pete Townshend
I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols. View quote
Aby Rosen
I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again. View quote
Clayton Moore
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. View quote
Elizabeth McGovern
I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such. View quote
Erin Moran
Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night. View quote
Etta James
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. (Fred Savage)
I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now. View quote
Felicity Kendal
It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s. View quote
Frankie Avalon
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. View quote
Ike Turner
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s. View quote
Jennifer Jason Leigh