(72 quotes found)
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.”
Senator John Kerry
“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.”
Billie Jean King
“I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.”
Will Ferrell
“What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“One "no" averts seventy evils”
Indian Proverb
“Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist”
Friedrich Engels
“After age seventy it’s patch, patch, patch.”
Jimmy Stewart
“George Bush is a fan of mine -- he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.”
Tom Waits
