Fifty Quotes

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.

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.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

Never trust a man who can dance.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

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.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

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.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

I do feel like, now, approaching fifty, I am definitely at a crossroads and having to reevaluate things and look at things. It's time for more change, and that's good.

If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

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.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.