Fifty Quotations | Page 4

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.

The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; / The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said 'The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden.' So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, 'If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life.

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

But if two and two and fifty make a million,...

Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.

Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just making that up, Jean.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time,

I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home...

If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Four fifty-four for gas... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.'

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,

Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand, / An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive as the man who has only twenty-five

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

Two is company; three is fifty bucks.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!