50 Quotes

#1. It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

Nick Hanauer

#3. I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Matt Berninger

#4. You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

Denzel Washington

#5. I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

Tony Curtis

#6. Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station ...

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe

#7. I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.

Jandy Nelson

#8. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal ... most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases ...

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#9. According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#10. I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.

James Altucher

#11. Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.

Jochen Zeitz

#12. I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

Paul Muldoon

#13. I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

Sam Snead

#14. Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

Rachel Marsden

#15. The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Cindy Crawford

#16. He awakens Me each morning; He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed, Isaiah 50:4

Beth Moore

#17. offered a modicum of privacy, and for an overnight price of only 50 Heller.

Anonymous

#18. The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites
man and woman, good and evil
are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Joseph Campbell

#19. I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.

Torrey Smith

#20. To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!

Steve Jones

#21. I've been doing a late-night talk show out here in New Mexico now, 'The After After Party.' We're going to finalize a deal to be in 50 million homes. How blessed can I be, man?

Steven Michael Quezada

#22. 'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.

Chris DeWolfe

#23. I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

Kirk Kerkorian

#24. People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

Earl Sweatshirt

#25. A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Athol Fugard

#26. My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#27. My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

Kate Winslet

#28. I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

Shaquille O'Neal

#29. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#30. When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

Mark Lowry

#31. Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

Donald Rumsfeld

#32. 30 Pushups 50 Sit-ups 10 Tricep Dips 20 Split Jumps 30 Second Burpees

Steve Plitt

#33. I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

David Letterman

#34. This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it.

Verne Lundquist

#35. I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Josh Holloway

#36. The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Criss Jami

#37. There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

Penelope Cruz

#38. You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Don Shula

#39. What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#40. I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

Tyler Florence

#41. It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

Theaster Gates

#42. I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%.

Marc Faber

#43. Even if I built a 50,000-seater stadium and bought Ronaldinho, there'd still be complaints about crap hotdogs.

Simon Jordan

#44. The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.

Sher Valenzuela

#45. Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.

King Felipe VI

#46. Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.

Thomas J. Stanley

#47. I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

Julie Walters

#48. Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

Mark Helprin

#49. To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Kevin Yoder

#50. He accomplished this primarily by hooking up with his best friend, Henry Goldman, before the Goldman Sachs partnership. (They toyed with creating Goldman and Lehman but instead decided on splitting the profits 50/50.)

Kenneth L. Fisher

#51. My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

Umberto Eco

#52. The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Zebulon Pike

#53. I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

Pat Gillick

#54. I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

David Mazzucchelli

#55. When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.

John Rzeznik

#56. Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne ... And of course, by resisting Hitler, he saved Europe and perhaps the world.

Mark Riebling

#57. When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

Shawn Johnson

#58. If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

Tony Blair

#59. Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.

Frank Caliendo

#60. it was better written than 50 Shades of I Can't Write for Shit.

Michael Finocchiaro

#61. The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

Alfonso Cuaron

#62. If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.

Harry Reid

#63. But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

John Sayles

#64. A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

Joan Blades

#65. Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'

Carol Vorderman

#66. Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Jeff Goodell

#67. I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

Marcia Gay Harden

#68. Top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people ...

Buck Rodgers

#69. I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Evelyn Waugh

#70. The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

Hank Williams III

#71. I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

Dean Ween

#72. We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#73. The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.

Jane Bown

#74. The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.

Herbert

#75. I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

Eddie Van Halen

#76. that there was more life in the old dog, Atari then sold the newly designed 2600 as the Atari 2600 Jr for less than 50 dollars, as well as the 7800 that had been gathering dust in storage for over a year. Videogames were, once again, the big thing, and in

Imagine Publishing

#77. There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

Grace Gealey

#78. Michael Jordan didn't become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn't become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

Jack D. Schwager

#79. Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Dana Stabenow

#80. #StarWars #Fresh&Easy #50%Off #Candy #JellyBelly #Jellybeans

Anonymous

#81. I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

Stewart Udall

#82. The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

Courteney Cox

#83. Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.

Jay Leno

#84. After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Yoko Ono

#85. I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Laura Linney

#86. I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

Don Nelson

#87. Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

John Shelby Spong

#88. I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,

Charles Ponzi

#89. Both President Obama and former President George W. Bush were interviewed on 'Face the Nation' over the weekend. President Bush said there's a 50 percent chance his brother Jeb will run for president in 2016. Then he said, 'But there's an 80 percent chance he won't.'

Jimmy Fallon

#90. And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Erika Slezak

#91. You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

Luke Evans

#92. Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Maggie Gallagher

#93. I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Eddie Vedder

#94. The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

Rudy Giuliani

#95. Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Tracey Emin

#96. Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Bode Miller

#97. I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating every day I Live.-RVM

R.v.m.

#98. We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over the last 50 years, is the fun of changing up the gang and bringing in new characters.

Jeph Loeb

#99. I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.

Lea Thompson

#100. I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

David Ortiz