1966 Quotes

1. "It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup."
Author: Alisher Usmanov

2. "With your silhouette when the sunlight dimsInto your eyes where the moonlight swims,And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,Who among them would try to impress you?-Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966)"
Author: Bob Dylan

3. "An' here I sit so patiently?Waiting to find out what price?You have to pay to get out of?Going through all these things twice?Oh, Mama, can this really be the end?To be stuck inside of Mobile?With the Memphis blues again-Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (1966)"
Author: Bob Dylan

4. "I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment."
Author: Bob Uecker

5. "Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)"
Author: Bruce R. McConkie

6. "In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since."
Author: Chuck Yeager

7. "I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme."
Author: Dwight Yoakam

8. "My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people."
Author: Frank Carson

9. "This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences."
Author: Frederick Reines

10. "In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.]"
Author: James Madison

11. "From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission."
Author: James Tobin

12. "The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966."
Author: Jeff Lynne

13. "Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it."
Author: Jim Garrison

14. "Quintana's christening was in 1966, this Christian Dior show was two years later, 1968: 1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States but they were for women who presented themselves a certain way the same time. It was a way of looking, it was a way of being. It was a period. What became of that way of looking, that way of being, that time, that period? What became of the women smoking cigarettes in their Chanel suits and their David Webb bracelets, what became of Diana holding the champagne flute and the one of Sara Mankiewicz's Minton plates? What became of Sara Mankiewicz's Minton plates?"
Author: Joan Didion

15. "I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years."
Author: John Jay Hooker

16. "But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Author: June Jordan

17. "Of course I love you,So let's have a kid. Who will say exactlyWhat its parents did;"Of course I love you,So let's have a kid.Who will say exactlyWhat its parents did; 'Of course I love you,So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'"Et cetera.-NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)"
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

18. "You're kidding, right? The whole town will know where we are just by the idle on that thing."He feigned a look of shock. "That thing is a 1966 GTO. It has a name, okay? It's Mack—as in ‘to mack on women.' I rebuilt it last year, and I was told the engine makes girls hot.""Someone actually used those words? Is it true?""TBD," he said."You're goofy. Let's ride in my Jeep. Its name is Jeep." Quinn chuckled. "Kavanagh has a smart mouth."
Author: Laura Anderson Kurk

19. "In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."
Author: Lord Mountbatten

20. "Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:"Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!"That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered."
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

21. "As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards—independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds—to ensure that they met the NIH's ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent. Scientists said medical research was doomed. In a letter to the editor of Science, one of them warned, "When we are prevented from attempting seemingly innocuous studies of cancer behavior in humans … we may mark 1966 as the year in which all medical progress ceased."
Author: Rebecca Skloot

22. "I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
Author: Roald Hoffmann

23. "SEMENTRA KITA SALING BERBISIKSementara kita saling berbisikUntuk lebih lama tinggalPada debu, cinta yang tinggal berupaBunga kertas dan lintasan angka-anglaKetika kita saling berbisikDi luar semakin sengit malam hariMemadamkan bekas-bekas telapak kaki, menyekap sisa-sisa unggun apiSebelum fajar. Ada yang masih bersikeras abadi.(1966)"
Author: Sapardi Djoko Damono

24. "I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966."
Author: Sarah Zettel

25. "A title from the1966 movie"The Russians Are Coming,The Russians Are Coming," gives a new meaning toa phrase: "wait a minute, we've seen this movie before"
Author: Steven Ivy

26. "I have three copies of the first edition, which sold in double figures, speaking loosely; there was a moment when Blond's 'Lord Malquist and Mr Moon' sold 67 copies, or some such number, in Venezuela - a mystery I never solved. I have never been to Venezuela. I remember going into Foyles' bookshop in 1966 and being gratified to see a stack of Malquist-and-Moons on the New Fiction table. I counted them; there were twelve. A week or two later I went in again; there they were. I counted them again; there were thirteen! I saw at once what was happening. People were leaving my book at bookshops."
Author: Tom Stoppard

27. "I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them."
Author: Tom Wolfe

28. "Monstrously Remote: "Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I immediately draw radii from my love—from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter—to monstrously remote points of the universe… the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time." – Speak Memory (1966)"
Author: Vladimir Nabokov

29. "These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of man's life at will."[Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 343 (1966) (dissenting)]"
Author: William O. Douglas

30. "We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)]"
Author: William O. Douglas

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