The Sixties Quotes
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The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep.
— Lemmy Kilmister
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
— Kelly Wearstler
The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
— David Foster Wallace
Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yourself wanting more.
— Victoria Staat
It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem,
— David Winner
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
— Jon Fishman
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
— John Schlesinger
One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
— Chris Roberson
As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.
— Klaus Schulze
To continue what one had been doing which was Dante's idea of hell
is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties. — Carolyn G. Heilbrun
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.
— George Harrison
When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!
— Dennis Hopper
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
— Nora Ephron
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.
— Sean Wilsey
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
— Jimmy Carter
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
— Marianne Williamson
If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.
— Gene Roddenberry
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
— J. Courtney Sullivan
In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.
— Veruschka Von Lehndorff
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
— Marc Maron
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
— Paul McCartney
In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.
— Jim Pattison
I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.
— Bill Ayers
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
— Khaled Hosseini
In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
— Cilla Black
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
— Michael Winner
My uncle missed the sixties. Not because he was too young. He just simply slept through them.
— Jarod Kintz
The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.
— Douglas Coupland
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
— Terry Pratchett
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.
— Britt Ekland
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
— Ozzy Osbourne
In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher' ...
— John Irving
As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
— Martin McGuinness
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
— Cathleen Schine
I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
— Tama Janowitz
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.
— Ronnie Spector
Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time.
— Michael Chabon
If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.
— Robin Williams
The sixties - most of which took place in the seventies...
— John Thorndike
I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.
— Penelope Tree
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
— Arne Glimcher
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
— Camille Paglia
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
— Jerry Garcia
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.
— Nick Nolte
I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.
— Ishmael Reed
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.
— Salman Rushdie
You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.
— Julian Barnes
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
— Martin Mull
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.
— John Connally
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
— Mary Augusta Ward
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.
— David Horowitz
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
— Damon Albarn
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
— Craig Charles
The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.
— Karen Neches
The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks,
— Ron Rash
I have a rotary phone from the sixties, it take forever to dial, which keeps me from making impulsive calls.
— Natalie Standiford
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
— John Le Carre
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
I'm a child of the Sixties.
— Ian McShane
