Fifty Quotes - Page 29

• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.19, Random House

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• We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

  Adolf Galland

  Fighter, Used, Built

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• When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

  Maxine Kumin

  Sleep, Years, Wake Up

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• On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Believe, Night

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Home, Agreement, United States

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• But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Marine, Hands, Years

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• You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

  Laurie Anderson

  Men, Years, Luck

  Song: Beautiful Red Dress

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• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Pain, Winter

  "The Man Who Loved Children".

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• I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights.

  Hal Porter

  Education, Learning, School

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• 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

  People, Thirty, Heard

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Library, Information

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• SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

  Mark Batterson

  Years, Tests, Here And Now

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2015

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• When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  Drake

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

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• We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Memories, Two, Mind

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

  Alan Arkin

  Book, Reading, Intuition

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman". www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I had a teacher who said something great. That was, 'Go out and collect your nos. Once you get fifty nos then you can start wondering when you can get a yes.' He said, 'It is not your job to get the job; its your job to do a consistent body of work. So, every time you go in there, just go in there and be consistent, and eventually it will get noticed and someone will hire you.'

  Jenna Fischer

  Teacher, Jobs, Body

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• Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.

  Jonathan Bowden

  Courage, Thug, Years

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• That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Together, Hundred

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.50

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• It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

  Leonard Baskin

  Years, Holocaust, Way

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• I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books.

  Ronald Reagan

  Book, Government, Organization

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Years, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.347

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• In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance; frequent bleeding between periods was another; in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Eight, Pms, Twenties

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• In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Years, Squash

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• Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

  Andy Rooney

  Night, Zucchini, Doors

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• Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Xbox, Children, Book

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