Fifty Quotes

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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything… — George Wald
The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that… — Mike Marsh
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only… — Josiah Strong
The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even… — Ernie Pyle
This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. — H. L. Hunt
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. — Dennis Rodman
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. — Marya Mannes
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. — Eric Sevareid
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. — Zahi Hawass
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice… — Jeff Goodell
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside… — Kathryn Lasky
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a… — Marilyn Monroe
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans being killed and all that money being spent, and… — George Wallace
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of… — John Adams
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them,… — Bible
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward. — Frank Lloyd Wright
TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in… — Ambrose Bierce
From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or… — Richard Hooker
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. — Sophia Loren

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