Fifty Quotes
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas -
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams -
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
William Golding -
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
William Franklin Beedle Jr. -
You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
David Bowie -
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. Hunt
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
William Feather -
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 metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
Daniel Libeskind -
Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
Robert Frost -
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. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.
Waldo Miller Salt -
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
William Shakespeare -
If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
Finley Peter Dunne
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We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
Adolf Galland -
There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
Santiago Durango Big Black -
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
Dakota Johnson -
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
William Greider -
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
Wislawa Szymborska -
Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
Hedy Lamarr -
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
Brian Tracy -
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
William Cowper -
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
A. A. Milne