People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti
PeopleThoughtLongFiftyLivedHe
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
LifeWomanFiftySideShadyHeyday
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Wilbur Wright
ManBrotherFlySaidYearsFifty
Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia.
Kaya Scodelario
PlayGreyShadesFiftyFilmAble
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
Daniel H. Hill
MenSocietyOverExistenceFifty
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
Tana French
YouNeedRightFiftyGetFine
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
MotherMeMoviesBirthPayFifty
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky
GirlFiftyCountTwentyOnlyAble
If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.
Townsend Harris
NameReadyThreeWillWriteFifty
The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.
Mike Marsh
PastPlantsProblemUnderstandFifty
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
Dennis Rodman
LifeMoneySexFiftyPercentOther
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Antonio Tabucchi
WarWorldYearsFiftyMinorityHalf
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
Mark McGwire
BrainThinkThinkingYouGoFifty
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea Ballou
AgeOld AgeYouthOldFortyFifty
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
Dwight L. Moody
ManMeFiftyThingsGive MeGive
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams
FiftyShouldersAbovePercent
I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.
George A. Romero
TimeDeepSundayGoHorrorFifty
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
WorkTechnologyMenManFifty
People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.
Uzodinma Iweala
PeopleThinkYouAfricaRightFifty
This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. Hunt
ManFiftyLoveliness
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
Robert Grosseteste
GoodYearSheepTwoFiftyCounting
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn
LibraryYouYearsFiftyBasketYour
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
Mike Love
BeachSingingTopFortyFiftyOut
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
Donald Ray Pollock
SchoolGoQuitFiftyGraduate School
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