Sixty Quotes
439 quotes by 381 authors
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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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…
— Ansel Adams
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The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
— Ernie Banks
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose…
— Clive Bell
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My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together,…
— Lewis Black
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My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't…
— Lewis Black
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
— Daniel Boone
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier…
— Julie Burchill
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
— George Burns
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that…
— Smedley Butler
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a…
— Michael Caine
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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,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
— Emily Carr
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
— John le Carre
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
— Lewis Carroll
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I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
— Tori Amos
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I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas.…
— Tori Amos
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
— Jeffrey Archer
Who Wrote These Sixty Quotes
381 authors contributed a total of 439 Sixty Quotes, led by these top contributors: