Fifty Quotes

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

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

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one people fifty times as much land and soil in this world as another.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

I kind of liked all the creeping stuff [in Fifty Shades Darker], like when they're sleeping and there's me just standing behind the bed. It was great.

Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking into perspective.

[Fifty Shades Darker director] James Foley directed Fear. And that's what I love about this film, because it has a real sexy thriller element about it.

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

Four fifty-four for gas... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.'

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.