Sixty Quotes
439 quotes by 381 authors
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or…
— John Dryden
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Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
— Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?
— Paul McCartney
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Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked…
— William C. Dietz
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Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
— Walker Evans
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling…
— Walter Jon Williams
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say,…
— John Zorn
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Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one…
— Sinclair Lewis
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I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.
— Wendy Liebman
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"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using…
— John Waters
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I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You…
— Linda Grant
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.…
— Camille Paglia
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Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
— Helena Rubinstein
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The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No…
— Mike A. Males
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.
— Rita Rudner
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Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.
— Maggie Kuhn
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