Fifty Cent Quotes

#1. When it came to Eva's life, her mom had the awareness of a fifty-cent guppy; there were sad-eyed janitors at school who seemed to have more insight into Eva's heart than her own parents did.

J. Ryan Stradal

#2. Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

Mark Twain

#3. Beauty isn't worth thinking about. What's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. - Garrison Keillor, American humorist

Habib Sadeghi

#4. In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.

John C. Calhoun

#5. Of the many species that have existed on earth
estimates run as high as fifty billion
more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.
more than a rounding error.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#6. I always root for the defense.

Wellington Mara

#7. Apparently humans share fifty per cent of their DNA with bananas. My father is a constant reminder of that.

Holly Smale

#8. I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

Niall Ferguson

#9. I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar Sadat

#10. Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

Patricia Hewitt

#11. God can turn your weaknesses into your strength.

Sunday Adelaja

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

Richard Jeni

#13. Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

Roger Daltrey

#14. Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

Earl Weaver

#15. The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

Tom Hodgkinson

#16. Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice.
I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precipice?"
"A cliff's edge," she whispers.
Precipice. Must be a French word.

Daven Anderson

#17. Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

Laura Riding

#18. I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II

Tennessee Williams

#19. Cheaters, I thought.

Richelle Mead

#20. Inspiration creates a never-ending Power that makes you go on and on and on and on!-RVM

R.v.m.

#21. At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Tim O'Reilly

#22. 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

#23. Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Pam Brown

#24. Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

#25. Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.

Rahul Bose

#26. I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

Peter De Vries