The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
He openned the door that he assumed was the garage only to find himself in the pantry. crap. "Um . . . grabbing some Pop-Tarts for the road," Nick said, covering his mistake. Still, they both stared at him as if he'd escaped Arkham Asylum. Offering t...
He found, using fifty stones to keep track, that he could easily remember the names of all fifty states, and he knew the capitols of a lot of them. He knew his times tables all the way up to twelves, and he knew when they'd signed the Declaration of ...
In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was only four hundred and fifty dollars a mo...
Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it cau...
I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream." "I think what's h...
Stuntman Mike: Well Pam, which way you goin' left or right? Pam: Right. Stuntman Mike: Aww, that's too bad. Pam: Why? Stuntman Mike: Well, because there was a fifty-fifty shot on whether you'd be going left. You see, we're both going left. You could ...
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
...filled her memory bank with shiny coins.
It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...
I want my world to start and end with you.
I've never wanted more, until I met you.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
