Approaching 50 Quotes

#1. There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#2. Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#3. Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

Amy Clampitt

#4. I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

B.C. Forbes

#6. I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Jackie Collins

#7. When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.

Amanda Hocking

#8. I won't have people judging you because of this.

Bianca Sommerland

#9. His skin was blotched as a dying banana.

David Mitchell

#10. Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

Henry Petroski

#11. In the baby's room
The city lights are
Milky
In the curtains ...
Breath
Gentle as rain,
Sleep
Quiet as snowflakes

John Geddes

#12. The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

Salman Rushdie

#14. I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

Erica Schroeder

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Larry Sabato

#16. I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.

Narendra Modi

#17. You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

Pat Robertson

#18. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Criss Jami