Fifty Quotes

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Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen… — James M. Barrie
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess,… — Herman Wouk
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the worldâ€™s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to… — Anne Lamott
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through… — Nora Ephron
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. — Homer
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. — Thomas Jefferson
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered… — George Carlin
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody… — Charles Bukowski
Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. — Tom Robbins
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn… — Scott Lynch
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald
There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for… — E. Lockhart
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov
We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling… — Rick Riordan
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates
The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had… — Marian Keyes
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught… — Evelyn Waugh

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