#sixty

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#book #center #character #imagine #literary

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#fit #man #self-evident #sixty-five

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#company #getting #going #hour #just

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. ↗

— Horace Mann

#diamond #each #forever #golden #gone

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#deal #did #folly #great #great deal

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ago #am #any #aware #captured

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#entering #illiterate #people #per #prison

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #education #everything #i #ignorance

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#angry #every #give #mind #minute