Sixty Quotations

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

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

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

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

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

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

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

Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.

I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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Whether we're down a goal, or up a goal or down two goals, we still believe in ourselves. Sixty minutes of hockey is what we need to play no matter what situation we're in.

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a

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

When you consider the number of passengers on board these ships that run into the millions, cruising has never been safer than it is right now. Sixty percent of our business is cruise business.

She's the toughest kid on the team. She's only about sixty pounds, but she'll go up against anybody. She's our Mighty Mouse.

Sixty years after Hitler and 87 years after gaining the right for women to vote, the people may have elected her (Merkel), but the majority of the powerful are still far removed from conceding the highest office to a woman.

Sixty percent temporarily is better than the judge coming along and imposing 100% of the $195 million permanently.

Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund ""no child left behind?

Sixty percent of the time, if he makes an out then we're stuck waiting for an extra-base hit from the guys behind him. It's just the proper play. It's kind of by the book, but this is a team game and we have to rely on more than just Allen Craig.

Sixty per cent of the population has to show up to vote; 60 per cent have to approve the change. Also 60 per cent of the ridings have to approve the change.

Sixty percent of the funds are from grassroots fundraising like the Bike-a-thon. We have 14,000 people in our database who have donated something, and we call and ask them to give again. They usually do.

Sixty percent of the country is in danger of landslides, ... The risk caused by this accumulation of water is worrying.

Sixty percent of our HP Integrity server customers are running Oracle applications and databases today, making this a key capability for our existing customers.

Sixty percent of our general budget goes to education. It would be ironic if electronic commerce erodes the science and math education that the visionary leaders of tomorrow need to keep this industry going.

Sixty percent of customers that get a refund say they can't save any other way. It's their only savings vehicle.

Sixty percent of all the monarchs caught and tagged at Milford Point were male, oddly enough. And they've tagged over 400 butterflies up to this point.

Sixty or 70 at-bats is no time to reach for the panic button, because this is a game of cycles.

Sixty mile-an-hour winds, over five hours, will raise seas from dead calm to about 19 feet.

Sixty is the new 40, ... That's about the only thing of Bill Maher's I agree with.

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Sixty days after Jan. 20, we should have all the equipment we ordered.

Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.

One of the things our movie is going to deal with is what happened in 60 years. Which world was better? Sixty years ago or now? Within, obviously, a kick-ass plot and all the stuff that you've come to expect from a superhero movie.

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day.

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.

On the anniversary of victory in the Pacific, the US salutes the WWII vets of Townsville, Australia. Sixty years ago you answered the call to defend liberty and protect democracy,

China Black Oil Well Services moved a work-over rig on the leasehold and began working today. We hope to have several more wells producing oil in commercial quantities in the next sixty (60) days.

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

We need to proceed very delicately. Sixty days is not a long time to make crucial decisions like the decisions being made here today.

Yeah, our orders were to shoot at enemy planes in a friendly manner, whatever the heck that meant. Sixty years later, I still don't know what the hell that means.

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

The exit polls are great. Sixty percent of the audience were males. It was 50 percent over-25 and 50 percent under-25. We're going to hang around for a while. I think we certainly have a shot at $200 million.

I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

We're just competing. All we're focusing on now is start playing better hockey defensively, neutral zone. We always talk about whatever the score is we have to play a full sixty minutes, that's what's happening.

We should remain humbled by what we have learned from the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We cannot allow sixty years to soften our memories of how devastating such weapons are.

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

We think of the typical eighth grader as young and immature. Sixty days later they're high school freshmen. Is it reasonable to assume they've suddenly gained all the maturity and experience to function competently at a comprehensive high school?

At the end of the day, after all the distractions, after the national anthem, after the planes fly over - well, I guess there will be no flyover because it's in a dome. But after all that stuff, you just have to focus on playing a football game. Sixty minutes of the best football you could possibly play. That's what it's going to take.

Council received approximately sixty calls during the night and each team had to work in very trying conditions.

Earnings actually have been very good in the second quarter. Sixty percent of the companies reporting so far have been upside surprises. That's not quite as aggressive at this point as the first quarter reports were, but still a very good performance in a weak quarter.

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

Northeastern has had our number in this building for several years and we were fortunate to come out with a win. This was a game that could have gone either way and the momentum swung several times, but we were able to carry it for most of the third period. We have not been the most consistent team over sixty minutes this season, but we were very focused i the third period tonight and I was impressed with that. Saturday night will be another challenge for our team.

One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

Aug. 9, the day of the operation, you know what day that was? Sixty years to the day the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Amazing... the human race designs something like that, something that kills, and then the same human race designs things to save human life.

This is a sixty million dollar change and that is profound. And yet it still only gets us half way to Mississippi.

You think back through history, and 40 was an old age at one time. You didn't live past 40. Sixty forget it. Here I am at 80, and I feel alert and energetic. Why would I retire?

In most cases, tech workers don't telecommute because their bosses discourage it or their companies prohibit it. Sixty percent of help-desk and support workers don't telecommute at all -- often because they're in the office supporting all the other telecommuters. In some cases, they're working on large, expensive equipment that you just can't take home with you.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the products of our parents. Sixty percent of our body is hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen atoms in us go back to the fireball fourteen billion years ago. We have been around a long time, and it has been a great birthing process to bring us forward.

Being sixty in Washington sometimes feels like having had one year's experience sixty times. However, age can confer a certain calm about the passing circus, a preference for understatement and for people with low emotional metabolisms.

I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

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

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

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

And she didn't have any money to get the ingredients in the pie. 'I hope you don't mind, we gave her sixty dollars.' I said no. I said no, it's all part of education.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And - every - single - one - of- them - is - right!

If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.