Seventies Quotes - Page 9

• Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

  Raymond Smullyan

  Years, People, Half

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan

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• I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Dark, Leaving

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

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• In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.

  Mort Sahl

  Girl, Sex, Black

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• If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

  Richard Rosen

  Communication, America, Preventing

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• Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Years, Two

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• Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Sweet, Stars, Heart

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Joy

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• The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Victory, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.404, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Growing Up, Animal

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• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1904). “A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters”

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• Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

  Michael Kors

  Clothes, Shining, Meat

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• The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

  Tom Ford

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• What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Giving, 60th Birthday

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• A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Morning, Years

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• Jose DeLeon
  on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.

  Ralph Kiner

  Winning, Careers, Three

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• Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Tragedy, Young

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• On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Book, Eight

  Arthur Conan DOYLE (2010). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.690, Omnibus

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• Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Giving

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [252]

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• I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Men, Thinking

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Autumn Rivulets', 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?'

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• [Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sex, Pretty Woman, Meals

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• With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

  Ariel Gore

  Heart, Blood, Three

  Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.14, Seal Press

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• The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.

  Will Self

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Will Self (2012). “How the Dead Live”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

  George Clooney

  Motivational, Dad, Aunt

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

  Billiam Coronel

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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