Fifty Quotes
803 quotes by 671 authors
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Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to…
— Jim Butcher
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This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this…
— Sara Zarr
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On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.
— Alexander Gordon Smith
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What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
— Jennifer Egan
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Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as…
— Peter Benchley
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor
— Garrison Keillor
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Go out and ask her into the alley.†Clay looked at Jeremy as if he’d just been told to dance the rumba on a public…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I’ll be real discreet,†Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes,…
— Janet Evanovich
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Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all. I…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences. They were…
— Woody Allen
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I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive…
— Lynsay Sands
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is…
— Ray Bradbury
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This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to…
— Mike Shinoda
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God, I loved him. I could insist I was okay with just being friends, that I'd find someone else and get over him, but I…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of…
— Rick Riordan
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People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?
— Lauren Kate
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