Forties Quotes

56 quotes by 55 authors

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you. — Tori Amos
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great. — Jennifer Aniston
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the… — Jack Kerouac
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and… — Eric Bogosian
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. — Rik Mayall
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear… — Miles Davis
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains. — Jane Wiedlin
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of… — John Newcombe
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I… — Veronica Lake
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Claudia Roth
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. — Salvador Dali
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of… — Geoffrey Rush
I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think… — Debi Mazar
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life… — Joan Cusack
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror. — Rebecca Harding Davis

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