A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
Russell Banks

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
Patricia Hewitt

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
Paul Begala

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?
Lexa Doig

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
Kirk Hammett

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Patton Oswalt

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
Vivian Campbell

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Mary Wesley

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Serge Lang

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
David Bowie

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
Marc Maron

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
David Letterman

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
Harry Shearer