Sixty Quotes - Page 23

• The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Average, People

  "Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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• If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

  Paul Kantner

  Remember, Ifs

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• For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

  Jerry Garcia

  Spiritual, Real, Political

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• The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easygoing sound and strangle the life out of it.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Listening, Next Steps

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

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• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Birthday, Hypocrisy, Four

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, Oberon Books Limited

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• The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Eight, Sky

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press

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• The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Abortion, Feminism

  Damaged Goods "Born Again Cows" (1986)

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Rivers, Enemy

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.43

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• My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

  Lewis Black

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Lewis Black Is Mad as Usual and He's Going to Take It" by Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. November 2, 2010.

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• The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

  Dave Barry

  Historical, Literature, Empires

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• The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

  Ernie Banks

  Shining, Nine, Cubs

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• I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Mom, Car

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• I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

  Tori Amos

  Husband, Emerald Green, Emeralds

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• The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

  John Lennon

  Retirement, Responsibility, Glimpse

  KFRC RKO Radio Interview, December 08, 1980.

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• I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

  John Lydon

  Fun, University Students, Parent

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• Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites, and has it made me any less beautiful? I’m missing two fingers and I have scars all over, but does anyone care? No! It just makes me more interesting! I’ll always be like this, stuck in this beautiful form, and you’ll have to deal with it." He seemed to sense that she expected a grave response, but for the moment, he was incapable. "I suppose it’s a burden I must bear," he said, grinning.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Two, Interesting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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• It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Men, Routine, Lions

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.

  Confucius

  Heart, Feet, Heaven

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Men, Age, May

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

  Meg Cabot

  Eight, Long, Gone

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

  David Sedaris

  Country, Queens, Two

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

  Nora Ephron

  Exercise, Hair, Feminism

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• Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Age, Born, Bigger

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Twits”, p.11, Penguin

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• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Grandmother, Swans, Evil

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

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