90s Quotes - page 3

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined. (James Surowiecki)
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. View quote
Jane Smiley
At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design. View quote
Jeffrey Zeldman
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. View quote
Candace Bushnell
If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well. View quote
Cass Sunstein
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better. View quote
Alton Brown
The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair. View quote
Emilia Clarke
The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s. View quote
Donatella Versace
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. View quote
Ron Wood
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests. View quote
Naomi Wolf
It was pretty clear to me and to them. I mean, most of my family are artists; my grandma, she's a painter and she sleeps during the day and paints all night; she has all these health problems but she's a devoted and committed artist. I was on the phone with her this morning and she said the best thing which was, ‘I'm in my second childhood, I should enjoy it.' She's in her 90s. (Zoey Deutch)
The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. View quote
Jil Sander
Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as love letters to the trope as a way of paying homage to classic games of years gone by. View quote
Anita Sarkeesian
I enjoy staying home with friends more than going out. The other night, for example, my girlfriends and I stayed in listening to some '90s rap - my favorite kind. We were in the Hamptons and made it an all-Biggie weekend, all of his albums on repeat. I loved it. View quote
Phoebe Tonkin
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace. View quote
Bryan White
On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room. View quote
Dave Franco
Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. View quote
Harvey Pekar
I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on. View quote
Tommy Hilfiger
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns. View quote
Alex Lifeson
I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left. View quote
Amish Tripathi
My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack. (Adam Pally)
If you remember the '90s, you weren't there. View quote
Al Jourgensen
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world. View quote
Caitlin Moran
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead. View quote
Chris Daughtry
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened. View quote
Chris Hardwick