[quoted in Life magazine, 9 January 1950] The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`.
Diana Dors
Of the movies I`ve done, there isn`t much I really like. The Gunfighter (1950), Roman Holiday (1953), Twelve O`Clock High (1949) I feel were my best. (1956)
Gregory Peck
[On her character in All About Eve (1950)]: "Margo Channing was not a bitch. She was an actress who was getting older and was not too happy about it. And why should she? Anyone who says that life begins at 40 is full of it. As people get older their bodie...
Bette Davis
The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
Charlton Heston
[about her first role as Mirella in Domani è troppo tardi (1950)] When the scenes begin, I change completely. I was not Anna. Like when you drink cold, cold water and feel it run like ice inside. I felt I was another girl, not me.
Pier Angeli
[After winning her second Oscar in 1950] When I won the first award in 1947, I was terribly thrilled. But this time I felt solemn, very serious and . . . shocked. Yes, shocked! It`s a great responsibility to win the award twice.
Olivia De Havilland
If you write about Hollywood, you can only write farce. It`s so way over the top, you can`t believe it. It`s Sunset Blvd. (1950), it really is. And it`s cut-throat at the same time.
Dirk Bogarde
The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
Charlton Heston
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950`s when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.
Dick Schaap
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn`t drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.
Willie Mays
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn`t drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.
Willie Mays
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830`s really through the 1950`s, you had conventions that actually did real business.
Amanda Simmons
[quoted in Life magazine, 9 January 1950] The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
