Seventies Quotes - Page 20

• The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Years, Finals

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.

  William Goldman

  Wish, Female, Giants

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Twenties, Lucky

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.118, Penguin

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• I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. “Been a long time since you visited, miss?” “About seventy years,” Hazel said. The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Glasses, Mirrors

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• She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

  Steven Levenkron

  Cutting, Two, Mind

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• Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

  George Packer

  War, Party, Independent

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• I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

  John Scalzi

  Army, Two, Wife

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.12, Macmillan

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• One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Years, Guilt

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

  Kelly Ripa

  Math, Skills, Waiting

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• Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Age

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• The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Land, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.12, Best Books on

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• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  Dale Carnegie

  Worry, Physicians, Patient

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.

  Charles Colson

  Spiritual, Country, Social Values

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• I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

  Laurence Housman

  May, Young, Dies

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• And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Uncomfortable, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7414, Delphi Classics

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• Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

  Ben Hecht

  Waste, Products, Written

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

  Ezra Pound

  Should Have, Years, Able

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• Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, Marijuana, Class

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• If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

  Mike Lowell

  Block, Failing, Percent

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• Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

  Mardy Grothe

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

  Grace Jones

  Fun, Hard Work, Thinking

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• The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Country, Years, Mugabe

  "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

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• If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

  Jonathan Banks

  Stuff, Tvs, Would Be

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

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