Sixtieth Quotes

#1. Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask.

Rick Riordan

#2. Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It's a sixtieth of a second.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

Nancy Thayer

#4. How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!

Seneca.

#5. You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of.

Patrick Ness

#6. I think I would play Batman. I love Batman.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#7. I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

Mercedes McCambridge

#8. Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Hilary Mantel

#9. To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

Ernie J Zelinski

#10. The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

Elvis Presley

#11. I'm not seeing a strong father-son relationship here, Alex. You two make Anakin and Luke look like Andy and Opie.

Rachel Vincent

#12. Freud thought about what a cigar represented, but he didn't go far enough. If you've ever known a man who smokes a cigar, think about the time he lavishes on his humidor, a box temperature and moisture controlled to keep them plump, and you understand the concept I call "box envy.

Susan DiRende

#13. I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.

Willow Smith

#14. There is a basic emotional spectrum from which we cannot and should not escape, and I believe that depression is in that spectrum, located near not only grief but also love. Indeed I believe that all the strong emotions

Andrew Solomon

#15. Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

Kevin Eubanks