Sixty Quotes - Page 19

• I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Heart, Night

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

  Tom Robbins

  Marijuana, Thinking, Rights

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

  Phil Robertson

  Years, Earth, Facts

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eight, Years

  Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

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• When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, People, Sick

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'

  J. California Cooper

  Home, Thinking, Years

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Sep 02, 2012

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• The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, Yesterday, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity

  Joe Perry

  Music, Play, People

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• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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• There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

  Sean Wilsey

  People, Kind, Genealogy

  "Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

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• I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, People, Grandparent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, Numbers, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, People, Four

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

  Snoop Dogg

  Two, Black, Violence

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hands, Soul, Lost

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point I was done writing about Andy, done talking about Andy....but now, I kind of love it. All these smart, attractive young people think I'm cool! So here I am a guy in his sixties with all of these interesting friends in their twenties. It's very stimulating and keeps me very much in the present.

  Bob Colacello

  Smart, Book, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.

  Andrew Marr

  Country, Clever, Government

  Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

  George Luks

  Birthday, Men, Youth

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• London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties and Seventies British films that I grew up on, because I did very much grow up on British films.

  William Monahan

  Growing Up, Blow, London

  Source: collider.com

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Evil, Wicked, Lines

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Air, Magic, Popular Music

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Self, Political, Revolution

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do similar things that I'm trying to do, with a lot less, with fewer resources, with less security, with less encouragement, with less opportunity - if I didn't know that, then I think doing what I do would be much, much harder.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Encouragement, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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