80s Nostalgia Quotes

“It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice—all of it. Any way that I was ever influenced by him really comes down to small, pale imitations compared to the real thing. There is a fearlessness about him. Watching him at Wembley Stadium with 70,000 people, he looks as comfortable as if he were in his own living room.”
― Lori Majewski, Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

“I wanted a Blaine but ended up with a Duckie.”
― Ashley Edward Miller, Colin Fischer

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
― Ferris Bueller

“The population, who are, ultimately, indifferent to public affairs and even to their own interests, negotiate this indifference with an equally spectral partner and one that is similarly indifferent to its own will: the government [Ie pouvoir] . This game between zombies may stabilize in the long term. The Year 2000 will not take place in that an era of indifference to time itself - and therefore to the symbolic term of the millennium - will be ushered in by negotiation.

Nowadays, you have to go straight from money to money, telegraphically so to speak, by direct transfer (that is the viral side of the matter). A viral revolution, then, more akin to the Glass Bead Game than to the steam engine, and admirably personified in Bernard Tapie's playboy face. For the look of money is reflected in faces. Gone are the hideous old capitalists, the old-style industrial barons wearing the masks of the suffering they have inflicted. Now there are only dashing playboys, sporty and sexual, true knights of industry, wearing the mask of the happiness they spread all around themselves.

The world put on a show of despair after 1968. It's been putting on a big show of hope since 1980. No more tears, alright? Reaganite optimism, the pump ing up of the dollar. Fabius's glossy new look. Patriotic conviviality. Reluctance prohibited. The old pessimism was produced by the idea that things were getting worse and worse. The new pessimism is produced by the fact that everything is getting better and better. Supercooled euphoria. Controlled anaesthesia.

I should like to see the equivalent of Bernard Tapie in the world of business emerge in the world of concepts. Buying up failing concepts, swallowing them up, dusting them off (firing all the deadbeats who are in the way), putting them back into circulation with a dynamic virginity, sending them shooting up on the Stock Exchange and then abandoning them afterwards like dogs. Some people do this very well.
It is perhaps better to save tired concepts by maintaining them in a super cooled state like unemployed labour, or locking them away in interactive data banks kept alive on a respirator.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“I can’t give you up, Lucy. I’m addicted to you, and I’m not strong enough to give you up.”
― Karen Grey

“Screws fall out all the time. The world's an imperfect place.”
― John Bender

“it was as if the ghosts of their youth had risen from their graves, strutting and preening in skintight leather and overly teased hair.”
― River L. Davis, Gnarly Little Thrill

“Time travel ain’t no Michael J. Fox movie. You
mess with timelines, you might end up with butterfly effects that’ll make Chernobyl look like a spilled Slurpee.”
― River L. Davis, Gnarly Little Thrill

“These were the days before cell phones, you have to remember. We just either showed up or didn’t, if someone didn’t, we assumed their parents had something else for them to do, they felt lazy, they were grounded…we didn’t know, and I won’t say we didn’t care, but it wasn’t our business.”
― Kristen Dearborn