Top 181 Fifty Quotes

In this post, you will find great Fifty Quotes from famous people, such as Christopher Columbus, Joel Hodgson, Hosea Ballou, Gordon Parks, Martin Luther King III. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
Joel Hodgson
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea Ballou
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Gordon Parks
In the fifty years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we have made tremendous strides in the fight for equality. We must continue to move forward, not backward.
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won‘t even remember me.
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people’s standards, that’s already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it’s a fact.
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I’ve never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
George Montgomery
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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 have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
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 fifty years from now and I’ll be glad to see you.
Richard Hooker
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day – it doesn’t matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated – have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson‘s, although there it is more related to the caffeine.
Gregory Stock
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through – the last fifty maybe just going back and forth on a single line or word selection.
Well, I’ve been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there’s no hope.
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don’t know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas
In ‘Twice Born‘ I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I’m going to look when I’m fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.
Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we’ve known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein.
Percy Julian
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
Red Cloud
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it’s enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.
Gianni Agnelli
When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics – as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems – it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.
Simon Kuznets
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explainedmummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Zahi Hawass
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 when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
Ernie Pyle
Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of th

Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He’s the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Camille Pissarro
It’s Fifty, not Fiddy.
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you’ve reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you’re from Nigeria, then you’re the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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 nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
My dream date would be what Christian Grey does in the Fifty Shades Of Grey’ movie.
I never thought in my dreams that I would score fifty in One-dayers: not fifty but match-winning knock because One-Day is a kind of format which doesn’t suit my batting, as I am not the kind of batsman who can hit big sixes.
Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around – and it is hard to stick around.
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
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 and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don’t think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.
Claudia Gray
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he’s got nothing more, you know?
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
I don’t want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty’s always good enough for me. I don’t want to have to give anybody seventy; I don’t want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we’ve learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that’s fine; you only need to get it right once.
My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.
Somebody was asking me the other day – President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that’s great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
Fifty years from now I’ll be just three inches of type in a record book.
Brooks Robinson
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there’s a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge’s plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, ‘natural history.’
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
Joseph C. Lincoln
Fifty – it’s going to be for the rest of my life. I’m going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I’m 50, and act like I am, too. That’s how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
George Stigler
Finally, I told them I’d drop out of the management program if they’d give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.
Andrea Mitchell
Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was b

Large-caps were safe in 1996, ’97, ’98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the ‘Aspen Times.’ I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.
There’s every other guitar player and then there’s Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
In Uttar Pradesh there is a district called Shahjahanpur. Fifty kilometers from Shahjahanpur, there is a small, cosy village called Kulra, where my entire family lives.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
In our lifetime, we’re going to see fifty percent of the world’s species go extinct. We’re already seeing this radical rise in the world’s temperature that was predicted.
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It’s absurd.
I feel like I’m the only person – or woman, at least – who hasn’t read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’
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
I can’t think of anything in my profession that would mean as much. You can talk about Emmys or Super Bowls. Fifty Masters Tournaments, that would be the ultimate.
The first video I ever made, announcingCrash the Super Bowl,’ I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
Kina Grannis
I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That’s what I’m trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it’s the dream of probably half the people in the country.
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
Sometimes I worry I’m writing ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ for teenagers, but I’m not.
Lauren Myracle
Someone said to me, ‘If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?’ My answer was then and still is, ‘If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.’
So I write melodies – thirty, forty, fifty – then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
Michel Legrand
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn’t. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day’s work in his last fifty years.
People feel much more comfortable with the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ version of women’s liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler if the suffragettes hadn’t wanted the vote and just really enjoyed chaining themselves to railings.
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I’m a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.
I can’t buy the happiness I see on people’s faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.
At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
I don’t think one should incentivise the losing of teeth. I find the idea of a child getting an iPad, or a £20 note, for losing a tooth, utterly abhorrent. Fifty pence, or a pound at most, is what my children can expect from the Tooth Fairy.
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause

I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
I don’t believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.
Michael Flatley
Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin’ through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
Leonard Baskin
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.
Stuart Symington
One thing I learn – I’ve been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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.
If anything, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of isolating and pressuring Cuba. While the policy was rooted in the context of the Cold War, our efforts continued long after the rest of the world had changed.
Fifty years after humans landed on the moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space exploration feats through the work of our commercial partner SpaceX and all of the dedicated and talented flight controllers at NASA and our international partners.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Completely committed to adapting ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Bret Easton Ellis
Fifty is a pretty cool number.
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don’t feel anything at all. I don’t know who knows, but right now I’m, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
‘The Paris Review’s mandate has been the same for fifty years. First and foremost, this magazine is for writers; the editorstask is to support and celebrate them, especially at the beginning of their careers, but also as they move forward, venturing stories that are creative, risky, new.
John D’Agata
A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
‘Spell it Out’ rose to be number 4 on the best-selling Amazon chart – ahead of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey!’ Who ever would have thought that spelling would one day beat sex – even if it was for only a few hours!
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven‘t taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn’t be bothered writing a book review, because I’d have to read the book, I haven’t got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
Eddie Campbell
The Iranians don’t intimidate! They’re like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They’ll still be fighting in fifty years!
When I was young, I was told: ‘You’ll see, when you’re fifty.’ I am fifty and I haven’t seen a thing.
Erik Satie
This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. Hunt
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
Everyone’s clamoring for the fourth book in the ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of ‘a fourth book in trilogy’ that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
E. L. James
You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousan

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
Miriam Hopkins
There’s fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
Santiago Durango
The greatest thing is nobody cares that I’m fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.
Rob Paulsen
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
Eric Sevareid
I have probably purchased fifty ‘hot tips‘ in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
For fifty years, debates about French anti-Semitism mainly revolved around France‘s record during the Second World War, when the Vichy government collaborated with the Germans.
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent… Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
I’m proud of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ I don’t need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
I’m flattered that so many baseball people think I’m a Hall of Famer. But what’s hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven’t had a base hit since then.
Richie Ashburn
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, ‘Which of these things do I want to record?’
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
Hernan Cortes
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Directing ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
Messi is unique. Inimitable and unrepeatable. Like him, one every fifty years. As a child, he fell into the pot of the football genius.
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 eleven men playing, and there’s only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
Red Grange
The ordinary Americanas far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
I like somebody who’s not so crazy but likes to have a good time… and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way.
I love ‘Fifty Shades’ and ‘Twilight‘ both.
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
Alberto Giacometti
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
Fifty points at home and 50 points away is unheard of as a team and I’d love to keep improving.
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I’ve no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
I go to these horror conventions all the time, and thes

I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They’ve pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.
If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.
Townsend Harris
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that’s a very special milestone.
Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.
In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I’m a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
Dick Schaap
I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
Considering what the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ film is about, I wouldn’t be able to play Anastacia.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
I’ve been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can’t waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
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 working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
My thing with fans is, it’s always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures – you shouldn’t take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?
You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don’t have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It’s not like fifty is the new thirty. It’s like fifty is the new chapter.
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, ‘Is that a song?’ I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.
There’s people I respect, and I guess that can be a crush. I think someone like Eddie Redmayne, he’s incredibly talented, and he’s realistic to say, like, oh yeah, that can be a crush because he’s not, like, fifty years old.
If the movie is good then great, but if it’s not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they’re stoked about it. I’m not like that.
In ‘Fifty Shades,’ seemingly, Christian has all the power and control – but actually, Anastasia does.
Few men have led a more active life – bodily or mentally – from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years’ business career, from which I had retired.
William Banting
I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only ‘pitched’ the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the ‘throw‘ became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.
Charles Comiskey
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
Fifty overs is a long time. It’s a good challenge, and you have enough time to show your skills.
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.