Fifty Quotes - Page 19

• I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

  G. H. Hardy

  Past, Men, Mathematical

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator – perhaps even a god – as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer. Few fictional heroes have ever done as much as Caius Julius Caesar.

  Adrian Goldsworthy

  Husband, Father, Hero

  Adrian Goldsworthy (2013). “Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.

  Robert Fulton

  New York, Distance, Light

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• The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.

  James Laver

  Beautiful, Smart, Years

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• We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

  Ivan Stang

  Stupid, Average, Population

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• I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

  Joseph Pilates

  Years, My Time

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

  Walter Dill Scott

  Men, Average, Injury

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• When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

  Robert Greenberg

  Dental Floss, Hands, Wind

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• Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

  Uwe Boll

  Government, Germany, Shelter

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• Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

  George Axelrod

  Girl, Giving, Gentleman

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• 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

  Writing, Two, Directors

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• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, College, Elderly

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

  Robert Ballard

  Country, Lying, Rights

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

  Mary Wesley

  Marriage, Divorce, Years

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• 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.

  John Boyd Orr

  Years, Lasts, Force

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• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Vocabulary, Average, Use

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• If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

  Warren Farrell

  Business, Men, Competition

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• My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realize I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

  Helene Hanff

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

  Davy Jones

  Killers, Comedy, Shows

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• And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?

  Ernest Gaines

  School, Men, Years

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.62, Vintage

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• But if two and two and fifty make a million...

  Pete Seeger

  Two, Mathematical, Ifs

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• She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

  Janet Flanner

  Artist, Hands, Years

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• The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Unique

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

  James Keller

  Time, Moving, Roaring

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• Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Time, Math, Mind

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