After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it? — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. — Dennis Rodman 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
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
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
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
Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol. — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being… — Nabeshima Naoshige Copy Share Image
Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green 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
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
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
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo. — Walt Whitman 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 have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than… — Ivan Stang Copy Share Image
It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make… — Ruud van Nistelrooy Copy Share Image
FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the… — Rodney Erickson Copy Share Image
Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one… — Henry IV Copy Share Image