Sixty Quotes - Page 27

• It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

  Michael Chabon

  Years, Together, Males

  "A Woman of Valor". Alure, May 2004.

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

  Mark Twain

  Home, Cat, Tails

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, August, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.30, Zola Books

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• Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.

  Jennifer James

  Teacher, Pain, Loss

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Florida

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fun, Thinking, Has Beens

  "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

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• The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

  Greil Marcus

  People, Risk, Different

  Greil Marcus (2013). “The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years”, p.56, PublicAffairs

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• It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

  Michael Behe

  Years, Expansion, Firsts

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• Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

  Clement Attlee

  Five

  "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 54), 1986.

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• There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

  Eric Ries

  Couple, Technology, Years

  "Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory". Interview with Carlye Adler, www.wired.com. April 30. 2011.

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• I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Thinking, People

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

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Tombstone, People, 30th Birthday

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• If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Children, Book, Past

  John Kendrick Bangs (2014). “The Autobiography of Methuselah”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

  Herman Kahn

  Years, Problem, Century

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.9, Lexington Books

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• Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

  Phil Plait

  Bad Day, Years, Dinosaurs

  "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  William Segal

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Change, Loss, Government

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• Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

  Mariska Hargitay

  Girl, Children, School

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• Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

  Ann Druyan

  Motivation, Real, War

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• I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still
  writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Writing, Appreciate

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hippie, Gun, Past

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• With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

  James Thurber

  Birthday, Sarcastic, Writing

  1955 In the New York Post, 30 Jun.

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• What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, War, Fighting

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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