Quotes About Fifty

In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people

Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

On the west side of the island was a village called Tomibo, where a force of about fifty American soldiers landed on February 28.

Hiya, bud," the driver said. She was about fifty, with a square face that had been savaged and turned to old worn leather by the sun, and she stretched it into a brief professional smile for me. "Where to?" It

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

May your birthday sex be twice as hot and half as painful as the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey.

I worried about the growing opposition, but publicly my posture was to take the offensive and concede nothing to my critics. When a reporter later asked me why I got a forty-year tax abatement, I answered, "Because I didn't ask for fifty.

I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said 'The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden.' So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, 'If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life.

when the fifty selected pool reporters were finally allowed in on the first morning they all remarked to their audiences how solemn and dignified the chamber was.