You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than… — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in… — Howard Graham Buffett 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
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
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe… — Lester Sumrall Copy Share Image
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on… — John Newcombe Copy Share Image
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad… — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image
Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it. — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing… — Jodie Evans Copy Share Image
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