1960s famous quotes

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.
-- Colin Hanks

#Way #Planets #1960s

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.
-- David Boies

#Boss #Partners #1960s

In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Games #1960s

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

#Significant #1960s #Publishing

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
-- Douglas Coupland

#Generations #Remember #1960s

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
-- Douglass North

#Airplane #1960s

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

#Prison #1960s #Sentences

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

#Writing #Age #1960s

In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.
-- Gary Taubes

#Today #Percentages #1960s

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
-- George Stigler

#Regulation #Study #1960s

Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.
-- Lindsay Ellingson

#1960s

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
-- Madison Smartt Bell

#Ends #1960s #Begin Again

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

#America #Prison #1960s

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.
-- Myron Scholes

#Fargo #1960s #Wells

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
-- Sally Kirkland

#Church #1960s

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
-- Sue Townsend

#Writing #Would Be #1960s

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s
-- Vanessa Carlton

#Different #World #1960s

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
-- Christophe Honore

#Life Is #Difficult #1960s

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
-- Robert Darnton

#Oxford #England #1960s

The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.
-- Sadakat Kadri

#Islamic #Conservative #1960s

Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which made it possible to express things directly, without having to rely on the written word, which was manipulated by men.
-- Valie Export

#Art #Men #1960s