Sixty Quotes - Page 17

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Michael Robotham

  Sixty Minutes, Lasts, Remember

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• I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Two, Nine

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• My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Female, Looks

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cancer, Years, Ten

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Signal to Noise”, p.38, A&C Black

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• I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Brother, Watches, Tvs

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Hands, Seventies, Fascinated

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  War, Mean, Eras

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)

  Quentin S. Crisp

  War, Drama, Kitchen

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

  Eve Ensler

  Real, Trying, Shapes

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Hippie, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Envy

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

  Sean Swarner

  Inspirational, Hope, Food

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• If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

  John Cowper Powys

  Purpose, Action, Compromise

  John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”

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• Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.

  Richard Viguerie

  Winning, Betrayed, Months

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• As we grow up we learn that even the person that wasnt supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and youll eventually lose someone you love, so take many pictures, laugh too much and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is one minute of happiness you'll never get back.

  Andy Biersack

  Hurt, Growing Up, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

  Friedrich Ebert

  Song, Symbols, Nations

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• This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

  David Foster Wallace

  Talking, Differences, Might

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

  Rumi

  Years, Mindfulness, Minutes

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.139, Penguin UK

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• I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Growing Up, White, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

  William Robertson Nicoll

  Success, Time, Zenith

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• I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

  Jon Fishman

  Grateful, Mean, People

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