Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol. — Fletcher Knebel 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
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
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
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
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty… She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is… — Bill Viola 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
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When… — Robert Frost 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
The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image