#fifty

We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#aircraft #allowed #built #few #fifty

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#bad #bald #because #drive #fifty

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#call #called #creative #creative work #day

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#fifty-two #food #get #important #more

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. ↗

— Al Lewis

#boulevard #dinner #every #fifty #friday

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #fifty #lived #long #often

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

— Sophia Loren

#fifty #fifty percent #got #people #percent

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#believe #book #class #class struggle #closed

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#better #fifty #good #made #than

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. ↗

— Al McGuire

#academic #athlete #bottom #classes #country