Quotes of: Fifties Keyword

Having the thought of you being with someone else is like a knife twisting in my dark soul

Fifty Shades of Grey

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Josh Billings

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

The Stars My Destination

What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt? As long as some of us hold on and do what we can.

The Map of Love

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

The Namesake

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...

Les Misérables

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

Sunshine

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

words are much stronger than I am.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Mary Wesley

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.

George Eliot

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.

Mario Cuomo

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

Oscar Hijuelos

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.

Richard Dreyfuss

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.

Tana French

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?'

Toby Keith