Quotes by category:Fifty

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just... by Henry Green

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

age fifty birthday

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

fifty cards two

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

economy fifty today

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

government fifty years

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone. by Isabel Allende

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

bullshit gone fifty

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

fifty long years

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spen... by Jack Kerouac

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

saving three fifty

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

sound fifty needs

I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the tone for the movies [Fifty Shades of Grey] so I felt a little more freedom this time and it probably made it more enjoyable.

shade fifty littles

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

fifty stuff years

How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.

Jean-Claude Juncker

balance agreement fifty

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

able fifty years

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

realizing fifty people

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Jerome K. Jerome

fifty giving years

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

pairs pants fifty

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

twenties fifty needs

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

lasts fifty years

Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.

John Dos Passos

fifty mistake years

There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship.

fifty people years

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

John Lanchester

thirty fifty people

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