Fifty Quotes

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Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than… — Gaston Leroux
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved… — Henrik Ibsen
I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be… — Libba Bray
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's. — Neil Gaiman
I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. Itâ€™s still the… — Nicholas Sparks
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so… — Ursula K. Le Guin
And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes,"… — Lord Byron
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four… — Scott Lynch
He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever… — Ernest Hemingway
And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be… — Janet Fitch
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than… — John Keats
I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my… — Susanna Kaysen
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by… — Jim Butcher
The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius
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 disowned by its… — Naomi Klein
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true,… — P.D. James
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist.… — Terry Pratchett

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