I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

- David Eagleman

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

- Francesca Annis

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

- Fiona Shaw

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

- Eddy Arnold

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

- Ernest Cline

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

- Eric Allin Cornell

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.

- Evan Osnos

I was Pippa on 'Home And Away' for nearly a decade.

- Debra Lawrance

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

- Douglas Feith

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

- Dick Schaap

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

- Alanis Morissette

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

- Donna Tartt

When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

- David Schwimmer

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.

- David Miliband

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

- Danny Boyle

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

- Chelsea Cain

The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.

- Christian Slater

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

- Byron Katie

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

- Annette Funicello

Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

- Andrew Rosenthal