Quotes About Sixty

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.

The Sumerians also developed a counting system based on the number sixty, which is divisible by eleven other numbers and so particularly handy for Bronze Age accountancy. From this we get our 60-second minutes, 60-minute hours, 360-day years and 360-degree circles.

I'm at the age now, when I meet a woman sixty years old, she's too young for me.

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

beautiful woman. Beautiful? That thought cleared his head. "Uh . . . you're not fifty or sixty years old

Before hanging up, Claire and I made a deal to help square the circle. "If your vote's the one that gets us to sixty," I said, "then those kids are going to need you, Claire. But if we're way short, there's no point in you falling on your sword.

embryo from drying out. Sixty million

The cop who had been an Alcatraz guard was potbellied and about sixty, retired but unable to keep away from the atmospheres that had nourished his dry soul all his life.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

I just said, 'I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.' 

every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line.

Age is just a matter of feeling. You aren't sixty if you dont feel like it.