1960 · Skopia

Showing 44 quotes from 1960

Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Marian Anderson

1960

★ 5.2

Magazine

Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the others players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.

John Updike

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu · 1960

★ 5.1

Novel · Western fiction · Western

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams

Butcher's Crossing · 1960

★ 5.1

Novel · Western fiction · Western

You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done.

John Williams

Butcher's Crossing · 1960

★ 5.1

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

1960

★ 5.1

Speech · Political speech

We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier—the frontier of the 1960's—a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils—a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats...the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

John F. Kennedy

1960

★ 4.5

Magazine

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer

1960

★ 4.4

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1960

★ 4.4

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1960

★ 4.4

It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval... The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.

J.C.R. Licklider

1960

★ 4.2

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

1960

★ 3.8

Novel

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

Novel

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

Interview · TV program

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Picture Parade, BBC · 1960

★ 3.8

Film · Psychological thriller (film) · Horror (film) · Psychological horror · Horror

A son is a poor substitute for a lover.

Norman Bates

Psycho · 1960

★ 3.8

Novel

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institiution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockeffeler, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

Novel

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

James Baldwin

1960

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin

1960

★ 3.7

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.

Spartacus

Spartacus · 1960

★ 3.7

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