1960s Quotes - Page 16

• I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.

  William Eggleston

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Daughter, Song

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• The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  People, Movement, Revolution

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• I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Discipline, Algorithms

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• We feel sorrow and pain over the death of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd. We have known this man for a long time... he showed support and commitment to the Palestinian revolution and to Fatah since the 1960s.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Kings, Pain, Commitment

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• I saw a ghost when I was staying at Dartington Hall in Devon in the 1960s. I think there are many different kinds of entities, some are scary and some aren't, it depends on the state of mind you're in when you are confronted. I found that quite scary because it appeared when I was asleep, so it was quite a shock, but the other ones I've encountered, I didn't find scary. I have a lot more understanding of them.

  Martin Shaw

  Thinking, Scary, Understanding

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Political, Democracy

  "Manufacturing Consent". Noam Chomsky's Lecture at the University of Wisconsin in in Madison, Wisconsin, March 15, 1989.

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• If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, United States, Looks

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• On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.

  Joe Queenan

  Baby, Memorable, Past

  "Proles in a pickle" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasnt going to support me.

  Francine Prose

  College, Ideas, Support

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• Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.

  Edward Kennedy

  Party, Cutting, Wind

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• I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the Dharma. I was halfway through the book when I turned to my mother and said, "I'm a Buddhist," to which she replied, "Oh are you dear? Well finish the book and then you can tell me about it." I realised I'd always been Buddhist but I just hadn't known it existed, because in those days not even the word 'Buddha' was ever spoken. This was in in the 1960s, so there wasn't that much available, even in London.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhist, Book

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Opening Up, Benches, Body

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• [In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

  Betsey Johnson

  Lsd

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