Quotes about Thirties

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. Votes: 4

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 4

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. Votes: 4

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. Votes: 4

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. Votes: 4

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then. Votes: 4

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. Votes: 3

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical. Votes: 3

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine. Votes: 3

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties. Votes: 3

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. Votes: 3

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style. Votes: 3

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self. Votes: 3

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. Votes: 3

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people. Votes: 3

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. Votes: 2

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties. Votes: 2

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. Votes: 2

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided. Votes: 2

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. Votes: 2

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. Votes: 2

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years. Votes: 2

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties. Votes: 2

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich. Votes: 2

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. Votes: 2

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me. Votes: 2

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. Votes: 2

I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant. Votes: 2

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress. Votes: 2

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait! Votes: 2

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it. Votes: 2

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. Votes: 2

I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance. Votes: 2

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift. Votes: 2

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. Votes: 2

The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties. Votes: 0

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great. Votes: 0

Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties. Votes: 0

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. Votes: 0

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. Votes: 0

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties. Votes: 0

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. Votes: 0

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Votes: 0

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time. Votes: 0

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. Votes: 0

The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties. Votes: 0

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless. Votes: 0

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties. Votes: 0

Once you get into your thirties, you stop giving a fuck what people think about your opinions. You're more confident. Votes: 0

I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties. Votes: 0

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right. Votes: 0

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy. Votes: 0

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule! Votes: 0

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed. Votes: 0

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties. Votes: 0

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. Votes: 0

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have Votes: 0

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty. Votes: 0

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it. Votes: 0

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you. Votes: 0

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished. Votes: 0

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. Votes: 0

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin. Votes: 0

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married. Votes: 0

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life. Votes: 0

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. Votes: 0

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that. Votes: 0

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. Votes: 0

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich. Votes: 0

I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.' Votes: 0

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business. Votes: 0

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. Votes: 0

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. Votes: 0

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features. Votes: 0

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker. Votes: 0

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years. Votes: 0

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties. Votes: 0

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be. Votes: 0

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties. Votes: 0

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem. Votes: 0

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society. Votes: 0

Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great. Votes: 0

I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people. Votes: 0

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors. Votes: 0

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days. Votes: 0

It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties there is a kind of gap. Votes: 0

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium. Votes: 0

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it. Votes: 0

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. Votes: 0

I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on. Votes: 0

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world! Votes: 0

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise. Votes: 0

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books. Votes: 0

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like. Votes: 0

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap. Votes: 0

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties. Votes: 0