90s Quotes

“She's all brute force and '90s clichés.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“Di dunia ini semua orang sibuk berkata-kata, tanpa pernah mendengar kata-kata orang lain.”
― Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Sepotong Senja untuk Pacarku

“As the final decade of the millennium dawned, there would be no greater expression of the cultural, economic, and social revolutions to come than fashion. What rock 'n' roll was to the '50s, drugs to the '60s, film to the '70s, and modern art to the '80s, fashion was to the '90s: the fuse, then the filter.”
― Maureen Callahan, Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion

“Ahh the 90's I hated ye when I was in it, but I love it now that it's gone...”
― Allison B. Levine

“What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.”
― Maureen Callahan, Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion

“Maybe they were in some kind of secret society. Something mega embarrassing. It was the nineties, right? What was embarrassing in the nineties?"
"Uh. Everything?”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)”
― Eve Kagan

“Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties… Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actually reads novels any more, but it’s a fashionable thing to be a novelist – as long as you don’t entertain people of course. I sometimes think,’ said Ivo, his eyes like industrial diamonds, ‘that my sole virtue is, I’m the only person in London who has no intention of writing any kind of novel, ever.”
― Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle

“Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said.”
― Maureen Callahan

“In Miami the obsession with making things work and being practical, with making lots of money, sometimes out of the fear of starving, has replaced a sense of life and, above all, of pleasure, adventure, and irreverence.”
― Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

“Ani DiFranco or Ani, as she is universally know to her fans, was, to a certain kind of white, middle-class woman, girl power in the purest sense. At twenty, she founded her own record label, Righteous Babe. She's released dozens of albums (and has sold over four million copies), had a baby, documented her life on the road, and opened for Bob Dylan.”
― Marisa Meltzer, Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music

“The lack of distinction between the real and the virtual is the obsession of our age. Everything in our current affairs attests to this, not to mention the big cinematic productions: The Truman Show, Total Recall, Existenz, Matrix, etc.
This question has always been there behind literature and philosophy, but it has been present metaphorically, as it were, implicitly, through the filter of discourse. The 'encoding/decoding' of reality was done by discourse, that is to say, by a highly complex medium, never leaving room for a head-on truth.
The encoding/decoding of our reality is done by technology. Only what is produced by this technical effect acquires visible reality. And it does so at the cost of a simplification that no longer has anything to do with language or with the slightest ambivalence and which, therefore, puts an end to this subtle lack of distinction between the real and the virtual, as subtle as the lack of distinction between good and evil. Through special effects, everything acquires an operational self-evidence, a spectacular reality that is, properly speaking, the reign of simulation. What the directors of these films have not realized (any more than the simulationist artists of New York in the eighties) is that simulation is a hypothesis, a game that turns reality itself into one eventuality among others.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“Algo debía de haber en el agua de Japón durante la década de los 90’s, para que obras del calibre argumental y filosófico de Neon Genesis Evangelion o Serial Experiments Lain viesen la luz en tan corto período histórico.”
― Byron Rizzo

“Are you ready to present your book reports?” Miss Shindling asked.
The classroom erupted with sounds—chairs scraping, Trapper-Keepers being opened, papers being rustled, throats being cleared.”
― R.L. Stine, My Hairiest Adventure

“I enjoy looking like a tart.
And thinking like a politician.”
― P.J. Harvey, TO BRING YOU MY LOVE by P.J. HARVEY [Korean Imported]

“There are lots of gay and lesbian actors who are very secretive about their sexuality. Things leak out, but you never know for sure. Maybe the nineties will change some of that.”
― Ellen Hart

“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?”
― Jasmina Tešanović, The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

“It was probably the stupid glasses. How were you supposed to see anything wearing mirrored sunglasses underground? Any they were so nineties, they weren't even retro yet.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Kids are calling the 1990s the late 1900s. Just sayin.”
― Richie Norton

“Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n’y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d’hériter du sceptre et qui n’avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“...c’est nous qui, dans cette phase, avons reconstruit l’imaginaire collectif du pays. Toutes les autres institutions s’étant écroulées, c’était à la télévision d’indiquer le chemin.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“He's an invisible Einstein. In his mind, he's a genius. Unfortunately for him, no one else can see it.”
― David Aaron Anderson

“That miserable old bollix isn't knocking on Heaven's door, he's booting it off its hinges.”
― David A. Anderson, The Drowners

“Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.”
― Dinobot

“We should’ve stopped… but we didn’t.”
― Kevin Voigt, Raiders: Friends in Low Places

“Okay, how about this? 'Spirits in torment! Do they really come back to the scenes of their tragedies? Bound there forever, even in death?”
― Richie Tankersley Cusick, Trick or Treat

“As she stabbed her victim repeatedly, a faint, sweet scent danced along the edge of Nora's awareness, tantalizing her with tendrils like mist. Suddenly she recognized the smell. Magnolia. It was not logical. But somehow it made sense.”
― Kate William, Return of the Evil Twin

“Janice says that there are deep, psychological reasons why Larry will only return home once a year. As a self-proclaimed expert in psychology and the only Grape to hold a college degree, Janice says that none of us will ever understand the impact that finding Dad hanging had on him. She says that just because he didn’t scream and cry and freak out doesn’t mean he wasn’t affected. On the contrary, she says, the wounds are so deep, too deep for a layman’s comprehension. All I know is that Arnie’s big eighteenth birthday is going to be something else. And if Momma hasn’t fallen through the floor and if Arnie hasn’t died in his sleep and if Ellen isn’t pregnant and if the other Grapes haven’t gone further off the edge, maybe, maybe we’ll be okay.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

“I want to say maybe you shouldn’t have even been born, Ellen. But I know that living is no one person’s fault. There are those who say that we chose to be born, that we make out some request and it is granted, that we’re put on this planet because we want to be alive. I think not. It’s the luck of the draw. Some people have to live while others get to sit this living thing out.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape