Forty Quotes

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

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

I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'

Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.