All Quotes

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.
‐‐ Jerry Hunt

In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.
‐‐ Frederick Reines

In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all.
‐‐ Sheldon Lee Glashow

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
‐‐ Ryoji Noyori

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
‐‐ James Salter

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
‐‐ Marv Albert

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.
‐‐ John Lahr

In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen

In 1958, a year before the revolution, Magnum wanted to send me to Cuba because they had contacts with the rebels. I'd just spent six months in South America and said 'No', so I missed everything.
‐‐ Rene Burri

In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
‐‐ John Harsanyi

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.
‐‐ George Stigler

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
‐‐ Norman Granz

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
‐‐ Frederick Reines

In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.
‐‐ Peter Falk

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.
‐‐ Ernie Wise

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
‐‐ Martin Ryle

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.
‐‐ Janet Reno

In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.
‐‐ Burton Richter

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
‐‐ John E. Walker

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

In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn't go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, 'Law firms won't hire you.'
‐‐ Janet Reno

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.
‐‐ Mary Ann Mobley

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
‐‐ Pete Hamill

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
‐‐ Manfred Mann

In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
‐‐ Pele

In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
‐‐ Peter Riegert

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
‐‐ Kenneth Joseph Arrow

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'
‐‐ Carroll Shelby

In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of his non-dissolved, traditional nuclear family that he made it the foundation of his public persona, his comedy act, and eventually of his blockbuster sitcom.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.
‐‐ Johnny Rivers

In 1965, I marched for equality.
‐‐ Alphonso Jackson