Sixty Quotes

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

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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

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

TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

Sixty percent of the vegetables you see in the supermarkets came from the American Indians. They also gave us aspirin and quinine. And their model of government parallels our Senate. But their women elected the chiefs, and impeached them.

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

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

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

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

A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.

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

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

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

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

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

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

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.

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

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day.