Sixty Quotes - Page 25

• That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

  George Harrison

  Flower, People, Going Away

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles (p. 296), 2000.

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• The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fifty, Tire, Haiku

  "Collected Haiku Theory". Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1951.

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• On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

  Tom Lehrer

  Christmas, Men, Three

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• Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup.

  Eminem

  Dying, Cups

  "Song: 'Underground'". 2009.

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Writing, Optimistic, Past

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.

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• At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Growth, Prejudice

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• I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

  Albert Kesselring

  Wall, Age, Faces

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

  Glenda Jackson

  Age, Camels, Faces

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• TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

  Hedda Hopper

  Creativity, Sixty Minutes, Half

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

  Friedrich Engels

  Years, Victory, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) (1957). “K. Marx and F. Engels on religion”

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Queens, Cities, Good Man

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.

  John Roecker

  Men, Play, Alive

  "Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah" by Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Weather, Yesterday

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• Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should Have, Yards, Impatience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.235, Penguin

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• The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

  David Letterman

  Running, Television Commercials, Campaigns

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• Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Cancer, Men, Play

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• His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Father, Character, Two

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1853). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.224

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• My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Mother, Scarves, Hundred

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• It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Important, Age

  "Paris Review", Writers at Work, 4th series, (p. 250), 1972.

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• I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Children, Men

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• A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

  Amelia Barr

  Men, Twenties, Ready

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.94, Litres

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• If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you do it. I don't understand people who do memoirs when they're 20. I think most people need a little more time than 20 years to become the person they are. In fact, that process of becoming who you are is still ongoing when you get older, where you go, "Let's see where my next 10 years is going to take me." S

  Grace Coddington

  Thinking, Years, Becoming Who You Are

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.

  Don DeLillo

  Years, Mind, Frozen

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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