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Quotes About Fifty

She was like the revolutionist at fifty: not afraid of death, but bored by the probability of bad steaks and bad breaths and sitting up all night on windy barricades.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Right. That's twenty-two fifty. Twenty-two fifty? We can't hide our exasperation. Well, yeah - this is a classy joint, you know. That's obvious - the service is incredible.
~ Markus Zusak
But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty years from now.
~ Stephen King
Vickery, a slim fellow in his early fifties, had already sweated through his uniform. His shirt clung to his chest, and his pants puckered out in back where an ass should have been.
~ Gillian Flynn
Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We're going to get blown out by fifty!
~ Gordon Korman
I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.
~ Katherine Kelly
beautiful woman. Beautiful? That thought cleared his head. "Uh . . . you're not fifty or sixty years old
~ Mary Connealy
Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set civilization back fifty years.
~ Bertrand R. Brinley
Desde los cincuenta, ya no representó ninguna edad. Y, siempre silenciosa, erguido el talle y mesurados los ademanes, parecía una mujer de madera que funcionara automáticamente.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Is there an odyssey the female soul longs to make at the approach of fifty – one that has been blurred and lost within a culture awesomely alienated from soul? If so, what sort of journey would that be? Where would it take me?
~ Sue Monk Kidd
According to Taoist belief, any fox that attains fifty years of age can shape-shift into a standard human.
~ Judika Illes
the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
~ Susanna Clarke
She did not rise at their entrance, nor make any sign that she had noticed them at all. But perhaps she did not hear them. 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.
~ Susanna Clarke
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
~ Scott Cook
Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one
~ E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed
Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
~ Karleen Koen
All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.
~ Kenneth Boulding
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.
~ Susanna Clarke
Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age, particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience, what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.
~ Molly Yard
fifty miles long, it is among the most heavily trafficked shipping channels in the world.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Palpatine, she has only just turned thirteen!" Palpatine spread his hands. "Naboo has elected younger Queens, m'lady. And hers could be a reign that will last fifty years.
~ James Luceno
If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
~ Loretta Swit
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
~ Eddie Murphy