Sixty Quotes - Page 12

• All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.

  Michael Cunningham

  Children, Kids, Math

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• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

  Wernher von Braun

  Failure, Errors, Rockets

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• There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Men, Thinking

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.54, Kodansha International

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• To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Swings, Practice

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

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• What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Weed, Garden, Definitions

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• 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

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• The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

  Twiggy

  People, Ordinary, Ordinary People

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• I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Military, Priorities

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• Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Character, Talking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 09, 2012

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• Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

  Paul McCartney

  Birthday, Needs, Unanswered Questions

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• Sixty years is cause enough to sing
  In celebration of a gentle life!
  To the mother and the wife,
  Taking pleasure in what love might bring,
  Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

  Nick Gordon

  Birthday, Mother, Years

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

  Walker Evans

  Cameras, Should, Polaroids

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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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• The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

  Adrienne Rich

  Twilight, Long, Nineteen

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

  Harold Brodkey

  Two, Space, Young

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

  Fred Rogers

  Average, Two, Use

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

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• One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Years, Age, Battle

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

  Eddie Mair

  Air, Feet, Twenties

  "PM" with Eddie Mair, BBC4, August 24, 2006.

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• Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.

  John Lennon

  Beautiful, Baby, Children

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• The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.60, Bantam

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• Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Sweaters, Parent

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• Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

  John Lennon

  Dressed Up, Happened

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• To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

  Terence McKenna

  Together Again, Cuckoos, Cuckoo Clocks

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• On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

  Ellen Willis

  Illustration, Rope, Levels

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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