Top 72 Sixty Something Quotes
#1. If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.
Brian Dennehy
#2. Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?"
"You can say it's short for something."
"For what? Sixty?
Pittacus Lore
#3. I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.
Shirley Franklin
#4. Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.
Deepak Chopra
#5. They were alone on sixty-four million square miles of ocean. A month earlier,
Laura Hillenbrand
#6. There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Lewis Carroll
#7. I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.
Tony Benn
#8. It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.
John Barnes
#10. Rino's mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me, I've never used either her first name or her last. To me, for more than sixty years, she's been Lila. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over.
Elena Ferrante
#11. I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
Henry Rollins
#12. At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.
Hilda Scott
#13. If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.
Nelson Algren
#14. When Julia was twenty-nine, her hair was already bar-coded. Now, at sixty-two, it was a solid helmet of bright pewter, level with her lean, brown jawbone.
Craig Raine
#15. Sixty beats of a heart would be enough. If I could hold them. Let them know I came for them no matter what stood in my way. It would be enough. Sixty beats of a heart past that door would outweigh sixty years in this world without them.
Mark Lawrence
#16. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.
Canibus
#18. And no wonder we couldn't find Flamel in that Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry," said Ron. "He's not exactly recent if he's six hundred and sixty-five, is he?
J.K. Rowling
#19. he had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting for, and care less.
Ulysses S. Grant
#20. Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
Colleen McCullough
#21. We were at sixty thousand feet. You're thirty percent lighter up
there.
Dan Brown
#22. The old guy behind the counter looked like he was doing about sixty, and it didn't look easy. Face was dark and chewed-up from something in his past. Hair was long and gray, and mostly behind him. He stared at me through two dark slits.
Richard Krauss
#23. My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.
Lewis Black
#24. Beautiful. "But if we get out of here and you're . . . uh . . . old and - " ugly - "sixty years old or something . . .
Mary Connealy
#25. The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
#26. When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!
Ruth St. Denis
#27. I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.
Agnes Varda
#28. Basically, there's something like sixty five million years between us and the T-Rex, and the Stegosaurus was actually extinct eighty million years before him.' 'Million
Dave Johnston
#29. He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Henry Fielding
#30. The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
Aaron Sorkin
#31. This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it's just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it's gone.
Robert M. Pirsig
#32. I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life.
Jon Acuff
#33. I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.
Mary Wesley
#34. If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.
Eve Ensler
#35. Shit, Millie thought. Did she look like she was about to croak or something? So what if she had just turned sixty; she didn't feel sixty and she didn't feel like she looked that old. This was happening all the time now. It pissed her off. She didn't want to make a scene, so she forced
Anita Page
#36. I don't know; I still like the name Six. Maren
Elizabeth was when I was a different person, and right now Six just feels right. It can be short for something if someone asks."
Sam looks over. "For what? Sixty?
Pittacus Lore
#37. The Asia had sixty-four heavy guns. For weeks it roamed the waters of New York Harbor, its weapons pointed at the city, looking something like an Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars. To stand
Jeff Wilser
#38. this, they've never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don't count anymore. I think it's small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.
Kathleen Rooney
#39. This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
Mordecai Richler
#40. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.
Fred Rogers
#41. I've swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I'm still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited by sixty-seven moons.
Amy Liptrot
#42. Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.
Charles Dickens
#43. Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.
Anthony Doerr
#44. Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.
Bruce Willis
#46. 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.
Ray Lewis
#47. I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Rachel Nichols
#48. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#49. A whale can injure another whale with its sonar. A whale can speak to another whale across sixty miles of ocean. A whale is as intelligent as we are, just in a way we can't quite measure or understand. Because we're these incredibly blunt instruments.
Jeff VanderMeer
#50. Year - I can't even find it in myself to look forward to the next day, let alone three hundred and sixty-five of them.
Jay McLean
#51. When I get older losing my hair many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?
John Lennon
#52. She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Barry Hughart
#54. I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the rear
Andy McNab
#55. You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
Sean Swarner
#56. Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
Joan Rivers
#57. There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#58. The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn cited Cheka Order No. 10, issued on January 8, 1921: 'To intensify the repression of the bourgeoisie.'
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#59. If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
Aaron Copland
#60. Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
Terry Tempest Williams
#61. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it ...
Rudyard Kipling
#62. But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days later. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Although
Sara Gruen
#63. The message of Christ's love is found in Isaiah, chapter sixty-one," the man was saying. "God himself will restore the crumbling foundations of your life. He will give you beauty for ashes. He'll provide redemption, no matter who you are, where you are. . . .
Karen Kingsbury
#64. Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
Carly Simon
#65. She was as secure as a sixty-year-old woman whose husband has never cheated on her.
Heather O'Neill
#66. I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.
Rory Bremner
#67. Out," I instructed as I began peeling my clothes from my body. "I am going to pee for twenty-seven minutes, and then I'm going to shower for forty-two minutes, followed by scrubbing my teeth for sixty-one minutes.
Robyn Peterman
#68. What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.
David Jeremiah
#69. 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.
Clive Bell
#70. I can feel that photo of Anna staring at me from sixty years ago, and I can't help myself from wanting to protect her, wanting to save her from becoming what she already is.
Kendare Blake
#71. Lead the way Batman." "Batman?" She winked. "Your Mom's a wealth of information. "Aww fuck." Seriously? She'd been here for what, sixty seconds?
Kim Carmody
#72. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.
Josiah P. Mendum
