Forty Quotes · Page 10

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

— Yoko Ono

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

— Jim Hightower

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

— George Herbert

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

— David Koepp

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

— Katharine Hepburn

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,…

— Lord Byron

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I…

— Patricia Cornwell

You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty…

— Ellen Schreiber

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties…

— Kelly Link

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable…

— Woody Allen

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to…

— Heber J. Grant

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year…

— Toby Keith

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government…

— Mike Pence

Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him…

— Anonymous

If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about…

— Jeffrey Burton Russell

Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at…

— John F. Kennedy

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like…

— Michelle Alexander

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…

— Fritjof Capra

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can…

— Ronald Reagan

I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When…

— Bill Ayers

I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited…

— Karen Thompson Walker

About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I…

— Charles Lindbergh

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even…

— John Green

In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies…

— Eric Betzig

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

— Sam Levenson

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

— Thomas Browne

The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

— Aristotle

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

— Carl Van Vechten

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me…

— Frank Langella

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

— Richard Brautigan

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

— Steve Martin

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

— Anonymous

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty…

— Peter Sellers

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

— Josh Lanyon

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

— Harrison Ford

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form…

— Sterling W Sill

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at…

— Edgar Guest

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of…

— Walter Savage Landor