Quotes of: Fifties Keyword

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

Fifty Shades of Grey

Of course. Silly me. Such a sad, exciting score, which no doubt you can play? So many accomplishments, Mr. Grey.” “And the greatest one is you, Miss Steele.

Fifty Shades of Grey

It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Annie Lennox

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what...

S. Jay Olshansky

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is so...

Charles E. Wilson

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

The Ascent of Man

She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie, she imagines she might live forever.

The Heaven of Animals: Stories

Yesterday it was a hundred outside. It was fifty degrees, but the air was saturated with average and smog-like intellect.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend’s nether region I wrestled a fifty free.

Lost Angeles

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

Life and Letters of Berlioz

The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

The Son of Neptune

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a...

Peter Diamandis

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the...

Pete Townshend

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Stendhal

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