Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon

The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

Other quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick

Category:
Experience
Read Quote

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

Category:
teacher
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Twentieth Century
category

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff… – James Ellroy

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. – Barbara Ehrenreich

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time. – David Bailey

Random Quotes

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether its science fiction, horror or really anything. Im just drawn to quality. I dont think Darkness Falls is horror there isnt any gore by any stretch of the imagination. – Emma Caulfield

Category:
Imagination

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county. – Bob Filner

Category:
Health

President Obamas 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think its a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and thats a good thing. – Andrea Jung

Category:
Fear

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. – Robert Patrick

Category:
famous