Fifty Quotes

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly.

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.