After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
. . . you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.
I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.
Writing is fifty years behind painting.
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.
There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders
There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?