Quotes by Fifty For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. A. A. Milne fifty dream people The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. Ad Reinhardt fifty years art 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 fighter used fifty You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous. Agnes Varda four too-much fifty If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. Albert Einstein defining fifty world Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less. Albert Einstein knows fifty years Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Alexander Hamilton body age fifty You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen twenties fifty mistake If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy. Alfred Bester fifteen fifty wanted This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing. Alfred Hitchcock fifty two people Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Alfred Lord Tennyson fifty europe years Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. Allan Gurganus lasts fifty years There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror. Andre Malraux fighting fifty way ...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see. Anne Fortier percent fifty thinking What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? Anne Lamott what-if fifty world Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. Anne Rice whipping noise fifty No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth. Anthony Lane fifty writing firsts It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. Arthur Conan Doyle three smoking fifty There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically. Arthur Conan Doyle reason fifty When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face. Barbara Cartland age fifty past 1234567891011»