Fifty Quotes
803 quotes by 689 authors
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Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
— Muhammad Ali
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Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked…
— William C. Dietz
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I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.
— Roger Federer
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Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired…
— Emanuel Lasker
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of…
— Margery Allingham
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Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near…
— Ian Fleming
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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
— Brooks Robinson
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You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the…
— Hank Aaron
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a…
— Daniel Libeskind
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When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
— Erik Satie
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A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't…
— John Cheever
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When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
— Carl Sagan
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Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
— Alex Hay
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You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed…
— Rachel Cohn
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The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the…
— Franklin P. Adams
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell…
— Steve Buscemi
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When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
— Prue Leith
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Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.
— Dennis Rodman
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come…
— Bob Hope
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