I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
With 'The Forty Rules of Love,' I wanted to write a love story. But I wanted a love story with a spiritual… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun… — Leigh Mitchell Hodges Copy Share Image
Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or… — Charles Diggs Copy Share Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over… — John Grant Fuller Copy Share Image
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We used to say, 'I don't wanna be jumping around and going crazy when I'm thirty,' you know? Even Mick Jagger said,… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
