Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years… — Louise Andrews Kent Copy Share Image
I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once. — Dres Copy Share Image
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a… — Daniel Barenboim 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
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat.… — Sam Simon Copy Share Image
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I… — Peter Benchley 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
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
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say,… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the… — John Lydon 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 have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
