Fifty Quotes

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I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot… — Kevin Brockmeier
If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the… — Franz Beckenbauer
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them. — Mike Love
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man. — Henry IV
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. — Wilbur Wright
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders. — Ted Williams
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. — Nancy Astor
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. — Hosea Ballou
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on… — John Moody
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half… — Unknown Author
You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars. — Miriam Hopkins
I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states. — Raquel Welch
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the… — Ernest Mandel
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed… — John Edward Redmond
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership… — Daniel H. Hill
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one… — Robert Grosseteste
In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved… — Charles E. Wilson
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store… — Joel Hodgson
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud… — John Linder

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