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“80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“It's better to swallow pride than blood.”
― David Bischoff, Some Kind of Wonderful

“This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know," said Ray. "My mums a plumber.”
― David Bischoff

“You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!”
― David Bischoff, Some Kind of Wonderful

“In Amsterdam. Eeuwen geleden het centrum van Europa, nu een gore provinciestad vol boeven, hoeren en ruïnes, maar door de burgemeester nog altijd voor een wereldstad gehouden.”
― Willem Frederik Hermans, Au Pair

“Hey, do you want to end this right now?" Her eyes flared. "I wouldn't have asked you out if I'd wanted to end it. Sit back, eat and enjoy. Pretend I'm dead.”
― David Bischoff, Some Kind of Wonderful

“Check it out. She's scandalously popular, insanely beautiful, and obviously in the middle of some emotional shoot-out to consent to date the human Tator Tot.”
― David Bischoff, Some Kind of Wonderful

“It's so frustrating that everybody rags on eighties music, when there's a lot of terrific stuff out there," he said. "There's no irony to it. It's not afraid to just be happy or enthusiastic or earnest. Or to have melody. Sure, you can blame it for being naive, but isn't that refreshing next to the whiny navel-gazing that came after it?”
― Amanda DeWees, The Shadow and the Rose

“The eighties?â€� I said. ‘As in, the nineteen-eighties? The decade that taste forgot? Honest, Sophie, ask your granny. Ask mine, if you like. She’ll tell you the only good thing about it was that the internet and phone cameras weren’t invented, well hardly anyway, so most of the awful photos are lying out of sight in drawers and shoeboxes.”
― Ken MacLeod, Descent

“A nostalgia é, essencialmente, história sem sentimento de culpa. E aceita desse modo, ela se torna uma abdicação da responsabilidade pessoal. Esquecemos que, socialmente, os anos 80 foram uma época de preconceitos intensos. Misoginia, racismo, homofobia, tudo mostrado de um modo tão agressivo que tinha o efeito prático de silenciar qualquer voz dissonante. Como a censura, isso tinha o efeito prático, anos depois, de gerar o famoso fenômeno da falsa memória, de um problema que não existia porque 'ninguém falava nele'. Silenciar a dissonância é sempre uma forma de apagá-la.”
― Samir Machado de Machado, °Õ³Ü±è¾±²Ô¾±±ôâ²Ô»å¾±²¹

“Both Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton told how much they loved the movie, proving that 'The Princess Bride' appeals to saints and sinners alike.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Refusing to go on a second date with someone because they failed to recognise a completely random Ghostbusters quote over dinner? Well, why waste time with losers? (It really is astounding I was single until the age of 35.)”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“As much as 1980s America was telling itself that
things were looking up, all was not well. Not by coincidence did the
American small town, the epitome of the conservative vision of the nation,
become the prime setting for 1980s horror fiction: a sunny, cheerful place of
white picket fences and apple pie where something would always be really,
really wrong.”
― Steffen Hantke, Horror

“Love in the flesh remained elusive. It drew yet frightened him. This was the late eighties, after all, the most terrifying days of the plague. Surrounded everywhere by insolent youth and beauty, Paul looked and lusted but didn’t dare touch.”
― Jonathan Galassi, Muse

“Eppure a volte per capire era sufficiente saper ascoltare.
Si ricordò di quella volta che era riuscito a descrivere le conseguenze che il terremoto dell'Irpinia dell'80 aveva avuto sull'equilibrio di quella comunità grazie a una semplice intervista. Era bastato l'incontro con un uomo che si aggirava su una collina di macerie a Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e raccoglieva piccole cose intorno a sé, oggetti all'apparenza privi di importanza: un fermaglio, un posacenere, una penna. Cercava con pazienza tra le pietre e le macerie e, appena qualcosa attirava la sua attenzione, si chinava a prenderla con delicatezza, come si fa con le more nei cespugli, e la riponeva in una scatola di scarpe vuota. Marco si avvicinò e gli chiese dov'era la sua casa e in che condizioni fosse.
-"È tutta qui. Ci stiamo camminando sopra." rispose l'uomo, senza scomporsi.
-"E la sua famiglia?"
-"Stiamo camminando sopra anche a quella. Mia moglie è proprio qui sotto" disse indicando la punta delle scarpe. "Qui siamo sopra la cucina. L'avevo lasciata lì ed ero andato a prendere la legna per il cammino quando è arrivata la scossa. I miei due bambini sono più in là. In quel punto, vede? Quando sono uscito stavano giocando nella loro cameretta. Devono essere ancora lì. E ora, se vuole scusarmi..." e andò via, lungo quel cimitero di macerie, cercando frammenti della sua vita perduta.”
― Franco Di Mare

“Life has changed a lot in the past 30 years: men don't tend to sport Michael Douglas-style bouffant hair, more's the pity.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“One of the jokes in 'Back to the Future' is how people in the 1950s don't get 1980s fashion. People in the 1950s were right.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Wow, you really... like my drawings." he eventually replied. When Tim Burton pretty much tells you that you're an obsessive nerd, you know you've crossed a line.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Just the thought of Michael Douglas dirty dancing is faintly traumatizing.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“I only managed to last a week on a dating website. You see, because of 'The Princess Bride' I have high standards when it comes to love and I just didn't believe that any beautiful farm boys would be on match.com. How would he have wifi up in his mountainous hovel?”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“When most people think of masculinity in eighties movies, they probably think of that strange genre that sprouted and bulged up in that decade like Popeye's biceps after eating spinach, consisting of men who look like "condoms stuffed with walnuts," speaking their lines in confused accents and emphasising random syllables, strongly suggesting they'd learned the words phonetically: Schwarzenegger, Lundgren, Stallone (technically, if not obviously, a native English speaker).”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Top Gun isn't just about falling in line with the military. Hell no! It's about rebelling against it, too! Because that's what real men are like, you see. A real man isn't a pencil pusher - he's the lone wolf, the renegade, the MAVERICK. Real men ride their motorcycles against a sunset into the danger zone. Women have sex with the mavericks, but men ARE the mavericks. High five low five! Yeah! And just in case that isn't entirely clear in the script, Tom Cruise's character's name is, of course, Maverick (real men also don't bother with fey subtlety).”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Take My Breath Away (from Top Gun): This song is so good it makes having sex with Tom Cruise seem almost sexy.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Daddy's Girl' (from 'Three Men and a Baby'): This song is about the love a daughter feels for her father. Sweet, right? Wrong! Here's the chorus: 'Little baby wanna hold you tight / She don't ever wanna say good night / She's a lover, she wanna be Daddy's Girl.' I love the movie but someone needs to call CPS, stat.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Pretty Woman has suggested that it is possible to lift oneself out of one's class (even if one has to become a prostitute and -even worse- spend a week with Richard Gere to do so).”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“She’d often thought of her late Ma as she wandered around the low-rent offices, efficiently cleaning each one with its drab kaleidoscopic decor of orange and brown. Her family home, like everybody else’s, was decorated like this until the tsunami of black ash and chrome swept them into the history books.”
― Jim Lowe, New Reform

“He had a thick moustache, and his eyes peered out from his long, lank black greasy hair, like a light from a cinema screen before the drab velvet curtains had been fully withdrawn.”
― Jim Lowe, New Reform

“I shan't hazard a guess, my guesses are hazardous!”
― Mike Avalon, Close: Set in suburban London during the glorious electric eighties, Close is the story of three forty-something friends.

“I'm homesick for the eighties," I once told a neighbor.”
― T.L. Russell

“Girls don't fight."
The king and his men laughed heartily; Ash glittered with anger, her eyes bright as ice in the moonbeams.
"You speak an outrage," she said to Daisy. "What world is it where females don't fight! It must be a world devised by males, where they can triumph unopposed."
"-and foully dull it must be," finished the king. "Who wants an unarmed victory?”
― Ann Phillips, The Oak King and the Ash Queen