Fifty Quotes

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So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is… — Michel Legrand
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and… — Robert Ballard
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. — Mary Wesley
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature… — John Boyd Orr
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five… — George Mikes
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons — Marie Dressler
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. — Christopher Marlowe
If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any… — Warren Farrell
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of… — Helene Hanff
I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy. — Davy Jones
And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier.… — Ernest Gaines
But if two and two and fifty make a million,... — Pete Seeger
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in… — Janet Flanner
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL… — Peter Drucker
Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty… — James Keller
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europeâ€”our home,… — Unknown Author
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. — Ogden Nash
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement… — Bill Condon

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