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Quotes About 1971

The first video game based on a movie or television series is probably Mike Mayfield's 1971 text-only game Star Trek, a strategy game about commanding the USS Enterprise against the Klingons. But Mayfield created the game as a hobbyist on a Sigma 7 minicomputer, a device that required as much space as several refrigerators. It hardly seemed to be at risk of becoming a commercial product.
~ Nick Montfort
The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
~ laurent yves saint
I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.
~ John Patrick Shanley
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.
~ James Cronin
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.
~ Paul Prudhomme
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
~ Jonny Greenwood
in 1971 New York City had more murders than American combat deaths in Vietnam during the same period.
~ Lawrence Sanders
That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!
~ Lemmy Kilmister
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals - it is amazing I passed.
~ Roger Taylor
Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
~ Harvey Fierstein
When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
~ G. Edward Griffin
He did not live to see the opening of Walt Disney World in Florida in 1971.
~ Whitney Stewart
This is a mad planet, David Bowie said in 1971. It's doomed to madness.
~ David Bowie
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
In 1971, when still a radical, I wrote a widely-read article in Ramparts attacking the Weather Underground for its terrorist ideas and practices.
~ David Horowitz
After the loss of its eastern wing, which became Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan has been completely dominated by one ethnic group, the Punjabis, who tend to favour the ideological model for Pakistan and are heavily represented in the military, the media and the bureaucracy.
~ Husain Haqqani
When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.
~ Jim Nabors
Subliminal Perception: The Nature of a Controversy (1971), authored by Norman F. Dixon
~ Unknown
Not a lot of people know I wrote the lyrics for the Arsenal club song, 'Good Old Arsenal'. We had a competition on ITV for it, and none of the entries were any good, so I approached their manager, Bertie Mee, and asked him if he would let me have a stab. He did, and within a few weeks they were singing it at Wembley on the way to the 1971 double.
~ Jimmy Hill
Keith Thomas' Magic and the Decline of Religion (1971).
~ Martin Van Creveld
In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.
~ Paul Prudhomme