Sixty Quotes - Page 9

• When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, California, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Generations, Use

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• The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Perfect, Leader, Political

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

  Neil Simon

  Long, Enjoy Life, Waiting

  Neil Simon (1971). “The comedy of Neil Simon”, Random House Inc

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• The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

  Noel Coward

  Silly, Heaven, Looks

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• We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Alive, Realizing

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• In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

  Pete Seeger

  War, Together, Vietnam

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• I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Eight, Chance, Cry

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

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• My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

  Clint Eastwood

  Regret, Father, Golf

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Mind, Fifty

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• If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Events, Looks, Film

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• Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.

  Tina St. John

  Hunting, Knives, Dollars

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• I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

  Shirley Franklin

  Years, Feet, Threat

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• In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, War, People

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• I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

  Jasper Fforde

  Teacher, Eight, Years

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• Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?" "You can say it's short for something." "For what? Sixty?

  Pittacus Lore

  Calling, Want, Six

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• She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don’t hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Morning, Hate, Blue Dress

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.13, Penguin

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Children, Divorce

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

  Woody Allen

  Light, Average, Giving

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• I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.

  John Lennon

  Real, Sitting, Joints

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 180), 2000.

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• If this keeps up, we’re going to own Melengar,” Hadrian mentioned. “What’s this we stuff?” Royce asked. “You’re retired, remember?” “Oh? So you’ll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?” “Sixty-forty?” Royce proposed.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Stuff, Hadrian, Remember

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• Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

  Jill Shalvis

  Breathing, Found You, Said

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.108, Harlequin

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• I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

  Hank Aaron

  Hate, Home, Hair

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• We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Dream, Ideas, People

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• It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Believe, Mean

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