Quotes with fifty-six

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  • Virginia Woolf Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Mark Twain Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Burt Shavitz Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Fred A. Allen Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Walter Matthau My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
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  • Alexander Calder My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
    Alexander Calder
    American sculptor (0 - 1976)
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  • Bettie Page My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bruce Vilanch My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Blair Underwood My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Beth Broderick Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Ronald Laing Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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