The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say,… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese. — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
