Fifty Quotes - Page 8

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

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

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.

Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.