Forty Quotes

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

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 like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.