Roaring Twenties Quotes:

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

- James Cagney

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Struggle, Tired, Roaring Twenties

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: People, Twenties, Roaring, Roaring Twenties

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Party, Missing, Twenties, Roaring Twenties

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Girl, Assonance, Gatsby Love

In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

- Donna de Varona

topic: Sports, Player, Self, Counterparts, Gertrude

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

- Hugh Hefner

source: "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

topic: Magic, Mind, Age, Jazz Age, Timer

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

- Hugh Hefner

source: "Interview With Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

topic: War, College, Illinois, Roaring Twenties

When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.

- Martin Scorsese

topic: Growing Up, Numbers, Culture, Roaring Twenties

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

- Peter Golenbock

topic: Character, Opportunity, Purple, Horsemen, Gertrude