Fifty Quotes

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My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise… — Doris Lessing
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or… — John Green
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And… — Arthur Miller
People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we… — Haruki Murakami
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of oneâ€™s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly… — R. D. Laing
The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway… — Rick Riordan
JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that… — Oscar Wilde
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or… — Henry Ford
In a whirlwind, Reagan quickly knocked off fifty more push-ups, flipped, and did thirty crunches, then turned and landed a kick that dented the metal… — Peter Lerangis
A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone,… — Nicole Krauss
Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve… — Norton Juster
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild… — Mahmoud Darwish
...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see. — Anne Fortier
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,… — Jack London
My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish… — Tyler Perry
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a… — Eric Foner
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are… — Jeanette Winterson
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion… — Ronald Reagan

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