30 Quotes About Eighties

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just the thought of Michael Douglas dirty dancing is faintly traumatizing.

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?

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.

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).