Sixty Quotes
439 quotes by 381 authors
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A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?†I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the…
— Lauren Oliver
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Raziel’s sixty feet tall?†“Actually, he’s only fifty-nine feet tall, but he likes to exaggerate,†said Magnus. Isabelle clicked her tongue in annoyance. “Valentine raised…
— Cassandra Clare
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He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its…
— Rick Riordan
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
— Robert Frost
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
— Marie Stopes
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
— Arnold Bennett
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The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.…
— Camille Paglia
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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
— Mark Twain
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Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated…
— Christopher Hitchens
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All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American…
— Michael Cunningham
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When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity.…
— Ruth St. Denis
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If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a…
— Janine Benyus
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The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
— Morris Mandel
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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy…
— Samuel Ullman
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Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker.…
— Tony Judt
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No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died…
— G. H. Hardy
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Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to…
— Bruce Willis
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