40 Days Quotes

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

I've done collaborations with Scott [Morgan, aka Loscil] in the past, but it is something that kind of appeals to me these days.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I truly am not a fan of iPhones, iTunes, Facebook, cell phones - all of these ways to be manipulated these days.

Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

The world's an angry place these days. Let's just not take it out on each other.

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to Tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I’m joking or not.

Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.