1960s Quotes - Page 5

• I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

  Kim Gandy

  Baby, School, Want

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• I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

  David Suchet

  Growing Up, Meditation, Typical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

  Bill Walton

  Team, School, Eight

  "Seven of the Dirtiest Teams in College Basketball History" By Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

  John Barth

  Teaching, Two, Bird

  Boston Sunday Globe, November 02, 2008.

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• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Character, Years, Law

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• I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

  Eve Arnold

  Mirrors, People, World

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• The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, . . . There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.

  Lawrence Stone

  Unique, Years, Historical

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, Sex, War

  “No kidding” by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

  Clarence Thomas

  Sex, Differences, Race

  "Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Injustice" by Steve Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Winter, Water, Degrees

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• Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

  Stewart Brand

  Dark, Age, Statistics

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.92, Basic Books

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

  Earle Birney

  Writing, Men, Vancouver

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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• How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

  Douglas Coupland

  Generations, Remember

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" by Douglas Coupland, (p. 41), 1991.

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• Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Believe, Airplane, Men

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• I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

  Daniel Clowes

  Television, Littles, Beats

  "Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Character, Years

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• The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

  Sebastian Thrun

  Real, Knights, Self

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• By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives.

  Igor Aleksander

  Order, Numbers, People

  "How to Build a Mind". Book by Igor Aleksander, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

  Denise Scott Brown

  Games, Like Something, I Can

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• We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

  Ginni Rometty

  Ideas, Long Ago, Age

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didn’t spring full-blown from the head of a flower child in the 1960′s. It really begins with Pythagoras in the West in the 6th century BC and has reasserted itself periodically ever since.

  Rynn Berry

  Children, Spring, Flower

  "Vegetarianism", www.vegsource.com. 2000.

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• Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

  George Ayittey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Feds

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• I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

  Tom Udall

  Mean, Eight, Pieces

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 26, 2010.

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