Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of what I've worked on is never going to get heard, but I think the important thing is just working. — Bonobo Copy Share Image
Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol. — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Dear A & M, I talked to the manager of the Beauty Bar because I definitely saw you guys getting married against… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more. — Paul Dourish Copy Share Image
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. — William Happer Copy Share Image
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you… — Perry Noble Copy Share Image
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