For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a… — Baltasar Gracian 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
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They… — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm mostly surprised by the fact he's still alive; given that people have been trying to silence him for almost fifty years,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there… — D. James Kennedy 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
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
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks. — Cher Copy Share Image
