Sixty Quotes - Page 24

• You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

  Scott Weiland

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Quirky

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• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  Camille Paglia

  Generations, Excess, Liberalism

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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Native American, Ironic

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• The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Past, Years, Memorial

  "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.

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• In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

  Thomas Malthus

  Children, Couple, Twenties

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• Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

  Dennis Miller

  Teacher, Years, Trying

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.14, Main Street Books

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

  Steve Winwood

  Change, Music, Thinking

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• With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Pairs, Hundred, Professors

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 5: "Harvard Years", p. 91, 1991.

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• I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, Years, Eight

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

  Elton John

  Girl, Sex, School

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Spinning Plates

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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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• 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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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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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 God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end of August? Sixty-five pages! Each paragraph is good in itself and there are some pages that are perfect. I feel certain. But just because of this, it isn't getting on. It's a series of well-turned, ordered paragraphs which do not flow on from each other. I shall have to unscrew them, loosen the joints, as one does with the masts of a ship when one wants the sail to take more wind.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sweat, August, Wind

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• See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie
  While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me
  Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
  In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

  Eminem

  Christian, War, Rap

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• Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Disappointment, Years, Three

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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