Sixty Quotes - Page 26

• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  Adam Johnson

  Book, Character, Years

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• Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

  Matthew Kelly

  Past, Rest Of Your Life, Sixteen

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.19, BookBaby

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• Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.

  Deepak Chopra

  Islam, Muhammad, Five

  "Deepak Chopra in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

  David Letterman

  Running, Television Commercials, Campaigns

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• I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

  Albert Kesselring

  Wall, Age, Faces

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fifty, Tire, Haiku

  "Collected Haiku Theory". Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1951.

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• At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Growth, Prejudice

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• I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Writing, Optimistic, Past

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 208), 1991.

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• What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Dreamer, Directors, Cinema

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• That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

  George Harrison

  Flower, People, Going Away

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles (p. 296), 2000.

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• On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

  Tom Lehrer

  Christmas, Men, Three

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• Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup.

  Eminem

  Dying, Cups

  "Song: 'Underground'". 2009.

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Hero, Player

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

  Glenda Jackson

  Age, Camels, Faces

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• Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should Have, Yards, Impatience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.235, Penguin

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• Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Weather, Yesterday

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• Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.

  John Roecker

  Men, Play, Alive

  "Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah" by Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. January 27, 2006.

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Queens, Cities, Good Man

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ecosystems, Lakes, Russia

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

  Friedrich Engels

  Years, Victory, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) (1957). “K. Marx and F. Engels on religion”

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• TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

  Hedda Hopper

  Creativity, Sixty Minutes, Half

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Years, Two

  "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2". Edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, p. 393, 2013.

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