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

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

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Carol Bellamy

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

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Alexander Hamilton

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
William Petersen

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
Mark McGwire

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

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Mary Wesley

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
Michel Legrand

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
Lakhdar Brahimi

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming