Sixties Quotes · Page 3

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent ...

— John Connally

I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.

— Laura Harrier

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

— George Harrison

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

— Nick Nolte

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

— Ishmael Reed

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

— Audre Lorde

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

— Klaus Schulze

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films.…

— Gene Roddenberry

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties…

— Coretta Scott King

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case,…

— Vivienne Westwood

I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn't have to be alone.…

— Reinhold Messner

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a…

— Billy Bragg

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

— Jerry Garcia

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood…

— Ronnie Spector

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university…

— Hugh Hefner

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I…

— Torsten Wiesel

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're…

— Anonymous

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction -…

— Justin Simien

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet…

— Jerry Saltz

Stuart was a very special person and he was miles ahead of everybody. You know as far as intelligent and artistic feelings…

— Astrid Kirchherr

As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we…

— Quentin S. Crisp

We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about…

— Adam McKay

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

— Billy Squier

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

— Tama Janowitz

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

— Penelope Tree

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

— Dave Barry

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my…

— Zainab Salbi

“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.”

— R.S. Gompertz

“Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about six lifetimes...all fictionalized in my six books.”

— Laurel-Rain Snow

“In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'...”

— John Irving

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

— Walter Becker

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

— Joe Dante

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

— Aaron Copland

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

— Walter Cronkite

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

— Dick Cheney

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

— Michael Winner

You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

— Sean Wilsey