Fifty Quotations | Page 2

It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old

I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Three hundred and fifty additional confirmed and probable cases of mumps have been reported from seven states ? Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

You know, fifty percent of the marriages in America end in divorce, and eighty percent of married couples, one or the other has had adultery.

The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,

When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty feet up in the air and climbing down. Literally, it's so busy, you feel you're on a ship. You're always moving; you're constantly adding clothes or taking them off, and there are many people on stage all the time!

We haven't been very disciplined. We have to take our stick off guys. That's just about learning. Fifty games in, these are very important points for us.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

Yeah, fertilizer. It's spring time and you can't beat this seven fifty a bag. A real good deal.

Well I think that, really, when I look back on fifty years of working on folk music in America and elsewhere, I think maybe the most important contribution I made to the future was the time that I put in with these two people. I was very young and I could really sit at their feet.

We definitely need them, I'd be willing to pay a fifty cent tax, that's the only way to stop this crime in the city.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

The fact that he is continuing to improve is awesome. Throwing 49-6 is unbelievable. Fifty feet here he comes. That's all I have to say.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

Never trust a man who can dance.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

Unless it has fifty per cent off or more, it is not selling.

We're going to change it. White people are going to wake up. We're going to run for office. I'm running for Congress. Fifty million white men out of work, then whitey will fight. He won't fight until then.

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: / The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Don't know about that. I'd love to see The Senders make it to fifty years.

Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'.

You hear the statement that holding could be called on every play, ... I'd say it's more like fifty percent. There're three types of holding: there's the holding that could be called, the holding that should be called and the holding that actually is called.

You hear the statement that holding could be called on every play. I'd say it's more like fifty percent. There're three types of holding: there's the holding that could be called, the holding that should be called and the holding that actually is called.

Twenty-seven percent of the property owners have signed the petition, and we are waiting till the end of June as our target to get the (required) fifty percent.

I've been doing this kind of work for over fifty years now, and nothing in this strange and frightening world seems more pleasant to me.

We were doing the Monterey Pop Festival, which I produced with Lou Adler, and the town of Monterey was sort of frightened by the thought of two hundred and fifty thousand hippies coming.

There are 28 million people that went to work this morning who make less than the poverty level, ... Fifty percent of the workers in America used to draw defined benefit retirement plans when they finished their working careers. That number is down to 17 percent. More and more Americans face their old age without adequate financial resources to enjoy that retirement in dignity.

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.

With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.

Up to fifty atomic bombs should be dropped on Chinese cities,

you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within

Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand

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Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Fifty basis points is most likely; that's factored into the markets already.

Fifty cents of every $4 will go back to the family.

Fifty games - sometimes I don't think that's enough.

Fifty million dollars is more of a symbolic gesture from the Korean government.

Fifty people, at least, have asked about what to do to eliminate birds in their trees, in their barns.

Fifty percent did not have to come to the station. Seventy-eight percent of the people were willing to use the Internet.

Fifty percent of Actors' Equity is female, but opportunities for classically trained female actors are minute,

Fifty percent of it is gut. Unfortunately, there are very little ways to establish it with reliability.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Fifty percent of me says they'll keep mostly everybody here and 50 percent says they won't. I know the stadium is a big issue. Jeffrey wants to win more than anybody I've ever met, but at what price? I mean, how long can you afford to keep doing this? There are no prospects of getting us a stadium. We've won two world championships and we can't get one. It's crazy.

Fifty percent of teens are downloading that content on a regular basis.

Fifty percent of the job is getting the client in the door, ... The other 50 percent is their ability to talk about their company and answer important questions, that's where we can assist clients as well.

Fifty percent of them will break up. If you were to add the dimension of working together, you'd probably see an increase.

Fifty percent of the students are on financial assistance. It's safe to say that 70 percent come from single-parent households.

Fifty points in the paint - that's unforgivable. You're not really playing very much defense.

Fifty points looks bad, but we've been in that kind of game all year long. And we were in that game again today.

Fifty to 100 years ago, humans had no choice but to be active. Today, we have to choose to be active,

Fifty wins, that's a big goal. That's definitely a mark we want to get to. If we can get to 50 wins, then we had a good season.

Fifty years ago, everyone read a few general-interest publications such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazine. Today, there's an explosion of specialty publications. People are doing what they are interested in. If they're interested in working with children, they work with the Boy Scouts.

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

Fifty years ago, if a colony was attacked, they would go elsewhere, but we don't have that any more. With more beachfront homes and more people coming to the coast, there are no extra areas.

Fifty years ago in America, law schools had virtually no women students or professors, and their attitude then is much like that in the film industry today. The prevailing opinion was that women don't want to be lawyers and, anyway, they wouldn't be good at it; they're too emotional. But there was a movement that forced schools to change, and nobody today says women aren't capable lawyers. We're saying the same thing. Let women in, we'll show you we can do it.