1960s Funny Quotes

#1. I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life.

Jack Tyler

#2. In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

Kevin Haworth

#3. The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#4. There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

Anthony Trollope

#5. I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

Jose Parla

#8. Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#9. If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.

Victoria Osteen

#10. What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Jimmy Webb

#11. He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#12. I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself.

Adrian Lamo

#13. I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient ... for now.

Toni Sorenson

#14. The entry-level job...is on its way to becoming an antiquity.

Miya Tokumitsu

#15. Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.

Davis Bunn

#16. Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?

Mark Helprin