Forty Quotes - Page 38

• The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Change, Four, Week

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• A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Majority

  Interview with Raymond Fraser, George Wickes, The Paris Review, Issue 23, 1960.

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• Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

  Andy Rooney

  Money, Dimes, Bending

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• In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Heart, Men

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• 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.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sorry, Years, Dinner

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• Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, People, Age

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• The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

  George du Maurier

  Moon, Men, Years

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

  Clive James

  Mahler, Never Trust, Should

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• I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Different

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

  Jonathan Raban

  Political, Mountain, East

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• Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

  Ornette Coleman

  Writing, Expression, Years

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• I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

  John Singer Sargent

  Hate, Believe, Men

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• 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.

  Olga Korbut

  Years, Twenties, Three

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• I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

  Eric Burdon

  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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• I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

  Vincent Cassel

  Stars, Style, French Love

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• I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

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

  Marcia Cross

  Thinking, Pregnant

  "'Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant': Marcia Cross on how she doesn't want to be a 'poster-girl' for older mothers" by Maysa Rawi, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 31, 2012.

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• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  Ann Druyan

  Children, Night, Want

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• Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

  Andrew Gross

  Suicide, Real, Kids

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• If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

  Tana French

  Needs, Fifty, Nine

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• So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Blessed, Names, Steel

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers.

  W. C. Fields

  Business, Race, Years

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• Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fate, Order, Years

  Jimmy Buffett (2001). “Jimmy Buffett, Guitar Anthology Series: Authentic Guitar TAB Edition”, p.95, Alfred Music

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