Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I was a teenager when General Zia took power in the Pakistan; I was in my twenties when I went there during… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty… — Rupert Giles Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl,… — Mary-Lou Weisman Copy Share Image
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have… — William Osler Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you… — Pat Cooper 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
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story,… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
