Forty Quotes · Page 26

You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty…

— Ellen Schreiber

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age…

— Stella Vine

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than…

— Mac Thornberry

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but…

— John Guare

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have.…

— Abraham Pais

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

— Grace Kelly

People only live for forty or fifty years so if you were married for twenty or twenty-five of those then that was…

— Zak Orth

I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.

— Steve Young

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and…

— Walter Mosley

Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work.…

— Ted Alexandro

“I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.”

— Racquel McDonnell

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never…

— Stephenie Meyer

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and…

— Vanilla Ice

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and…

— Edith Sitwell

All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years?…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

— Leigh Steinberg

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was…

— Donna Reed

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

— Marlon Brando

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting…

— Charles Dickens

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in…

— Erwin Schrodinger

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought…

— Robert Harris

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on…

— Gustav Nossal

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

— Linda Hamilton

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

— Sue Monk Kidd