There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many… — Bjorn Lomborg 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
If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by… — Steve House Copy Share Image
“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I… — Marie Dressler Copy Share Image
Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always… — John Muir 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
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but… — Stuart Symington Copy Share Image
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
