Fifty Quotes - Page 3

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.