Soixante Quotes

#1. There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

Jack Nicholson

#3. No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#4. I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

Tomie DePaola

#5. We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

Eugene Ionesco

#6. When you first came, you were less than human, but right now you make a pretty good girl in love.

Mika Yamamori

#7. His lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine

E. E. Cummings

#8. As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.

Helen Lawrenson

#9. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

Howard Zinn