Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what… — Dakota Johnson Copy Share Image
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty… — Caryl Chessman Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge… — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before… — James Laver Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for… — Marcel Tabuteau Copy Share Image
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image