Fifty Quotes · Page 2

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

— Miriam Hopkins

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

— Kevin Costner

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

— Julius Schwartz

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

— Robert Benchley

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

— H. L. Hunt

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

— Mark Twain

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

— Brooks Robinson

Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.

— Lauren Myracle

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

— Erik Satie

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to…

— Gordon Brown

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what…

— Ian Mckellen

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen…

— Erik Satie

“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people…

— Alfred Hitchcock

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School…

— Herbert Hoover

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,…

— Albert Camus

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of…

— Ava Gardner

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on…

— Tess Gerritsen

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page…

— Joan Didion

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,…

— David Mermin

The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated…

— James E. Faust

I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this…

— Charles Spurgeon

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy,…

— Marsha Norman

I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces…

— Gary Shteyngart

What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have…

— Katherine Paterson

He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And…

— Emma Forrest

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

— Anonymous

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

— Christopher Morley

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

— Clement Attlee

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

— Terence McKenna

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes

— Benito Mussolini

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

— Thomas Jefferson

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

— Victor Hugo