Sixty Quotes

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

My parents were sixty years married.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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.

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

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.