Fifty Quotes

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For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people. — Gordon Bell
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of… — Fulton J. Sheen
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up. — Peter Drucker
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We… — Marie Dressler
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral… — Edward Dahlberg
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement… — Mark Twain
Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a… — Margo St. James
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have… — Red Grange
About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. — William Happer
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could.… — Waldo Salt
Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life... ? ... Good. Well… — Emma Watson
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. — Andre Malraux
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. — Ernest Hemingway
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one… — Roald Dahl
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?… — C.S. Lewis
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into… — Gordon Brown

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