Fifty Quotes
803 quotes by 671 authors
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Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And…
— Robert Browning
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Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened…
— Rick Riordan
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Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her…
— Iain Banks
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If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
— Alfred Bester
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Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill…
— Kim Harrison
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The door opened, and we were met by a fifty-something man with a grizzled blond beard. He was wearing Bermuda shorts and a Lynyrd Skynyrd…
— Richelle Mead
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his…
— Linda Howard
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That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a…
— David Benioff
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Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than…
— Marsha Norman
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My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax?…
— Meg Cabot
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell…
— Tennessee Williams
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Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only…
— Richard Brautigan
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Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his…
— Bill Watterson
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He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over…
— Patricia Cornwell
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But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full…
— Paul Monette
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GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially…
— Gena Showalter
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When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the…
— Albert Einstein
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