Forty Quotes

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.