49 Quotes

#1. The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.

Hugh Laurie

#2. Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.

Richard Dawkins

#3. The Biblical Illustrator was published in 66 volumes. To give you a sense of how comprehensive it is, volume 49 contains 588 pages on Galatians. And

Joseph S. Exell

#4. I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

Graham Lowe

#5. The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

Dick Morris

#6. Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

Doug Casey

#7. Today, you can buy chess programs for $49 that will beat all but world champions, yet no one thinks they're intelligent.

Anonymous

#8. At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Bill Walton

#9. You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Marvin Hagler

#10. I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!

Wendy Williams

#11. By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."
(Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, p. 49)

Carol Ruth Silver

#12. Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

#13. If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.

Tanith Lee

#14. It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

H.W. Brands

#15. You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

Eva Mendes

#16. I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.

Lemony Snicket

#17. In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

Bob Diamond

#18. I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

Henny Youngman

#19. When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added).

Jen Hatmaker

#20. Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole."
"He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually."
-Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-

Cassandra Clare

#21. Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

Gabrielle Tozer

#22. Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

Kyle MacLachlan

#23. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people." (Genesis 49:10)

Val Waldeck

#24. 5 Fieldworker life expectancy: 49 years. Antonio Velasco, M.D., Farm Workers in the 1990s. Forty-nine is akin to Somalia (United Nations report) and thirty years less than in the U.S. (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Camels and catfish live longer.

David Marin

#25. Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

Jon Scieszka

#26. WGrayson7: yeah. what are you doing up at 1:33:48?
willupleasebequiet: waiting to see if 1:33:49 is any better. you?

John Green

#27. If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Muhammad Ali

#28. Of our 49 billion, we haven't moved any to Bitcoin

Warren Buffett

#29. I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election ... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!

George W. Malone

#30. 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

#31. I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Grace Slick

#32. When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

John Breaux

#33. The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.

Melina Marchetta

#34. ...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic."
- Bonita Avenue, p.49

Peter Buwalda

#35. I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.

Craig T. Nelson

#36. It is too early to tell whether the Internet's effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is not too early to tell that there is nothing that happened between 1450 and now that comes close.'49

John Naughton

#37. According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.

David Horowitz

#38. A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

Craig Kilborn

#39. He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49

Donald Keene

#40. 49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

Burt Ward

#41. Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Joan Rivers

#42. The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

John Moody

#43. As
Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49

Pope Benedict XVI

#44. The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him.

Gregory Palamas

#45. I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.

John Lydon

#46. 99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Ron DeLegge II

#47. I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Homer

#48. It's not simply that communists are atheists and want to stamp out religion; it's that they cannot tolerate anyone who worships a King who stands above the kings of this world. For that higher allegiance gives a basis for demanding freedom and rights from the earthly king.49

Charles W. Colson

#49. We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.

Jason Hawes

#50. On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Ray Mabus

#51. Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

Dan Quayle

#52. We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

John Cornyn

#53. If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

Franz Beckenbauer

#54. There are 49 guys that got bored to sleep on my record, so they got knocked out by it.

Wladimir Klitschko

#55. The saints, who are living sacrifices to God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt (Mark 9:49,

Matthew Henry

#56. At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Russell Crowe

#57. Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me. Isaiah 49:16

Beth Moore

#58. Real work gets done in pairs (51:49). Find your companion. You will know him or her when you feel completely humble in that person's presence, and when you trust that person to lead you along.

Bahauddin

#59. My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

Fred Funk

#60. It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired.

John Green

#61. I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

Eartha Kitt

#62. Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50 states, that makes his -up to that point - incredibly successful. The idea of winning 49 states, incredible.

Frank Luntz

#63. Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Thomas Jefferson

#64. Pitiful are those who, acting, are attached to their action's fruits. The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone. ~ Bhagavad Gita, c. 400 BCE ~ 2:49-50

Larry Chang

#65. I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

Paul McCartney

#66. Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Brendan I. Koerner

#67. I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Jim Costa

#68. When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn't know whether to celebrate with champagne ... or hemlock.

Len Filppu

#69. Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on His afflicted ones (Isa. 49:13).

Beth Moore

#70. It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Sharon Stone

#71. Berdyaev remarks that "no one ever proposes evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good."[49] Yet the resort to violence is precisely where evil seeps in. Besides,

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

#72. Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.

Rickey Henderson

#73. Freedom is like a muscle of the human spirit; it tends to atrophy and diminish with neglect, but grows and becomes stronger from regular use" (p.49).

Tom Malleson

#74. I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

Natasha Lyonne

#75. A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace.

Jay Leno

#76. Both the Vivid festival and the Harbour Bridge are wonderful, and under normal circumstances I'm sure I'd recommend them. 49

Lee Zachariah

#77. The year I turned 26 I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

Jordan Belfort

#78. Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Alistair Cooke

#79. A list of equipment purchased under MKULTRA Subproject 49 includes "I shock stimulator." Whether the shock stimulator was used as a conditioning tool, to check for hypnotic resistance to pain, or to determine whether a hypnotic subject can perform under stress, is unknown.

Colin A. Ross

#80. Mao would hardly be deterred by the universal condemnation of the civilized world. He saw Stalin as his model. In the agrarian reforms, Stalin had killed seven million; Mao himself killed an estimated forty million Chinese in his reforms.49

William J. Bennett

#81. Into crates, but threw the bad ones away. 49 That is the

Anonymous

#82. [48] - 4
Dispelling fear but knowledge be,
Replacing our doubts completely,
Nothing need be feared undoubtedly,
But must be comprehended absolutely.
[49] - 4

Munindra Misra

#83. According to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#84. In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#85. Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.

Dana Cowin

#86. When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Joan Collins

#87. It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

Charles Dickens

#88. What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

Prem Prakash

#89. On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose, (pp. 49).

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#90. In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Bernie Sanders

#91. Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

#92. [11:49] JPL: What we can see of your planned cut looks good. We're assuming the other side is identical. You're cleared to start drilling. [12:07] Watney: That's what she said. [12:25] JPL: Seriously, Mark? Seriously?

Anonymous

#93. Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

Tom Feeney

#94. Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#95. In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

William Greider

#96. To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.

Gary Carter

#97. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.

Anonymous

#98. If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on the Hill.

Ally Condie

#99. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?'
It does. It also makes me sound bipolar.'
Love will do that to a person.

Simone Elkeles

#100. The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Mortimer J. Adler