Sixty Quotes - Page 10

• It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

  Joe Dante

  Political, Hard

  4 Copy quote

• You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Twenties, Rich

  4 Copy quote

• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  John Lennon

  Music, Teenager, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service. It is hard, and at times discouraging, work. Last year our missionaries averaged sixty-seven hours a week in actual proselyting effort. Let those who contemplate missions realize that they will work as they have never worked before, and that they may expect such joy as they have not previously known.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Holiday, Vacation

  4 Copy quote

• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Discovery, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Clothes, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

  Andrew Marr

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

  8 Copy quote

• I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Dieting, Eating

  "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

  Michael Robotham

  Sixty Minutes, Lasts, Remember

  6 Copy quote

• One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Morning, Past

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

  Kate Morton

  Years, Missing, Gone

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show the champ. I'll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist----

  Kathryn Lasky

  Moving, Owl, Crow

  4 Copy quote

• On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

  Charles Portis

  Men, Swings, Medicine

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.51, A&C Black

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

  Connie Willis

  Years, Nine, Hundred

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.449, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

  John Green

  War, Silly, Wine

  4 Copy quote

• You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, Long, Age

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.331, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.

  Charles Yu

  Suicide, Running, Tired

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.9, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

  Lewis Carroll

  Three, Done, Paper

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?" "Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.

  Tamora Pierce

  Color, Done, Spirit

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2”, p.218, Random House Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

  Nancy Reagan

  Children, Crazy, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.

  S.C. Stephens

  School, Sixty Minutes, Things In Life

  S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

  4 Copy quote

• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

  5 Copy quote

• My parents were sixty years married.

  Roddy Doyle

  Years, Parent, Married

  4 Copy quote