Sixty Quotes
439 quotes by 381 authors
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One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
— Connie Willis
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Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity…
— Tom Robbins
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If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person…
— Kate Morton
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Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show…
— Kathryn Lasky
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On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of…
— Charles Portis
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And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.
— Connie Willis
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The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our…
— John Green
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You’re just the romantic age,†she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of…
— Charles Yu
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And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see…
— Lewis Carroll
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Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as…
— Tamora Pierce
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I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is…
— Harlan Ellison
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Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and…
— Cassandra Clare
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After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
— Sara Gruen
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It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.
— John Elder Robison
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If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
— John Marsden
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.
— Charles M. Schulz
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The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked…
— Penelope Lively
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