(126 quotes found)
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
George Orwell
“For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 378 kilograms per hectare.)”
Dave Barry
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
W. Edwards Deming
“As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three”
Simone de Beauvoir
“If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.”
Tony Benn
“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.”
Ted Williams
“The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.”
Elizabeth Hardwick
“I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.”
Cher
“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.”
Wilbur Wright
