Forty Quotes - Page 37

• We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

  Ted Turner

  Eight, Years, People

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• It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

  Henry Miller

  Birthday, Feelings, Young

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• My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

  Chris Robinson

  Years, Twenties, Three

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

  Kevin Barry

  Hangover, Passion, Thinking

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• And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

  Kevin Barry

  Children, Acceptance, Views

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• By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

  David Brinkley

  Years, People, House

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• In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

  David Brinkley

  Husband, Men, Support

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• Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Crowns, Hardship

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• Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

  Lord Byron

  Hymns, Hypocrisy, Vaunt

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Hands, Play

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• At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

  James Thurber

  Flower, Writing, Leaving

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.149, Library of America

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• Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Egypt, Pyramids

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.724, Delphi Classics

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• I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

  James Thurber

  Eight, Years, Age

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

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• Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Years, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

  Charles Stross

  Careers, Average, Long

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, Real, Long

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Waiting, Three

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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• There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

  George Burns

  Morning, Silly, Wake Up

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Boys, Ashamed, Fourteen

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.137, Jerome K. Jerome

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• In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

  Cynthia Payne

  I Can

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• I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given the level of access and information he was able to discuss, he had to be older.

  Laura Poitras

  Ideas, Generations, Levels

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Bridges, Paris, My Best Friend

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• Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Used, Percent, Knows

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• I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.

  Linda Hoaglund

  Country, Teacher, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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