Sixty Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

  Trina Robbins

  Hippie, Reading, Character

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 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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• That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, Needs, Impatient

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• in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

  Doris Day

  Sex, Adventure, Fiction

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• Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Time, Believe, Thinking

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• I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Writing, Cutting, Childhood

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• The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.

  Kathleen Madigan

  People, Scare, Calling

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• The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Soul, Suffering

  Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.541, Doubleday

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Army, Space

  Edward Gibbon (1870). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.119

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• At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Years, Cities

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• Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Math, Hell, Asks

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• There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,
  going sixty-five miles an hour.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Doors, Hours, Throwing Up

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• I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

  John Lanchester

  People, Fifty, Thirty

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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