1960 Quotes

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. — Kate Morton

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form - 'English Socialism', — George Orwell

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". — David Pietrusza

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow. — Bob Schieffer

To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player. — Leonard Mlodinow

What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960 — Julio Cortazar

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. — Cathleen Schine

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. — John Doar

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8. — Christopher Buckley

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing. — Bob Marley

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960. — A. Lee Martinez

Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet? — Jack Kerouac

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. — Donald E. Westlake

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane. — Arnold Palmer

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ. — Muhammad Ali

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV. — Bob Newhart

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic. — Daven Anderson

Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was. — Glenn Beck

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state. — Noam Chomsky

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong. — John Hurt

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. — Anita Roddick

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good. — Jakob Dylan

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. — Davy Jones

Yes, 1960's North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920's and 1930's crime bosses - QET Jenkins — Kim Welsman

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available ... in America right now. — Merle Haggard

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. — Paul Nurse

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964. — John E. Walker

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960. — Nicole Richie

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison. — Sushil Koirala

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. — Jim Lehrer

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay — Dalton Trumbo

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. — Fred Saberhagen

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner. — Jeane Dixon

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute. — Ian Anderson

born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby — Kathryn Stockett

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. — Charles Murray

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day. — John Langdon-Davies

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. — Earle Birney

I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960. — Andre Brink

between 1950 and 1960 more new office space was added to New York than existed in the rest of the world at the time. — Andrew Cracknell

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio. — Wolfman Jack

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be. — Michael D. Higgins

Except for food and medical supplies, the United States imposed a total embargo on Cuba on October 19, 1960. — Hank Bracker

Dewerman was this bearded 1960's throwback: a Teletubby in tie-dye, suspenders, and thinning hair scraped back into a stringy gray rat. — Ilsa J. Bick

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect. — John Updike

THE LAST DROP 1960 WHERE: The Leela Palace New Delhi PRICE: Rs 35,000 for 30 ml, — Anonymous

I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years. — James Comey

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. — Jack Nicklaus

When I joined politics, I was arrested in Luanshya ... In 1960, I was with great people like Justine Chimba, Mazimba from Ndola and Dingiswayo Banda. — Michael Sata

We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now. — Pat Boone

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life. — Doris Lessing