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Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
— Tony Visconti
Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
— Sharon Moalem
To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)
— Aaron Cometbus
as of April 1, 2010, the U.S. government had lost thirty-four out of forty-six habeas cases. In appeals of several of those cases,
— Mohamedou Ould Slahi
In a cab back in Jersey, I finally answered one of thirty-three of Kyle's text messages (he called forty-seven times, I shit you not. Who does that!)
— L.D. Davis
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
Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.
— Jay Leno
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
— Jay Samit
Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.
— Michel Houellebecq
Chom. Don't you have an urge to see justice done?" "It's not nearly as strong as my urge to reach forty with a complete set of limbs.
— Colin Cotterill
His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time-
Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks
In the blank skin of things, and died of it. — A.S. Byatt
Who saw Infinity through the countless cracks
In the blank skin of things, and died of it. — A.S. Byatt
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
At forty, a man wears the face he's earned.
— Gillian Flynn
Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.
— Stephen King
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
In this neighborhood, with only forty-five cents, you're a bum. But Sobotnik, even with two dollars, he's still a bum.
— Nelson Algren
I only mean forty per cent of what I say.
— Marlon Brando
I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.
— Mariella Frostrup
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.
— George R R Martin
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
— David Nicholls
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
— Henry James
I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.
— Don Rickles
Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty
I wouldn't know what to do with myself. — Hunter S. Thompson
I wouldn't know what to do with myself. — Hunter S. Thompson
If we want to pick the point where a man's sexual appeal has reached its limit, it's there: forty.
— Christian Rudder
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
— Walt Disney
The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
— Hanya Yanagihara
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
— Robert Thurman
...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
— Robert Harris
It's not Life that begans at forty, it's Death
- Victoria — Kathy Lette
- Victoria — Kathy Lette
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
— Brooke Burke
To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
— Keith Richards
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
— Hank Williams Jr.
I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
— Stevie Nicks
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. — L.M. Montgomery
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. — L.M. Montgomery
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
— Michael Parkinson
It's a baby plane," Angel whispered when we first got inside the dollhouse-like interior. "It's going to grow up to be a seven forty-seven someday.
— James Patterson
For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation's poetry.
— John McWhorter
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.
— Chris Rock
There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
— George Burns
I try imagining myself in forty years, but it's like trying to picture what lies beyond the universe.
— Haruki Murakami
Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
— Hector Berlioz
People shouldn't be throwing away their history when it's still doing archery practice forty miles up the road.
— Natasha Pulley
Well, I know. It's jam - that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.
— Mark Twain
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.
— George Burns
That anonymous coward is probably forty years old with raging BO and still living in his mum's granny flat
— Gabrielle Tozer
Cath thought of Levi's warmth against her arm last night. And his ten thousand smiles. And his forty-acre foreheard.
— Rainbow Rowell
...he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled.
— Chuck Klosterman
The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.
— Randy Alcorn
I got my forty acres," Andre said, looking out the back window at his farm. "You go get yours.
— Tiffany Reisz
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
— Aristotle.
Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old.
— David McCullough
The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.
— Eric Foner
One lie will keep out forty truths.
— Idries Shah
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.
— Nancy A. Collins
Most people would take me for over forty.
— Osamu Dazai
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
— Aubrey Beardsley
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
Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.
— Mike Royer
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.
— George Sarton
You're just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that's what I say.
— Terry Pratchett
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
— Jim Hightower
Apparently it takes, like, forty-seven muscles to frown. Flippin' the bird' s a hell of a lot easier.
— Lois Greiman
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.
— Michael Crichton
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
— Cory Doctorow
Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.
— Joan Didion
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
— Newt Gingrich
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something ... It's all about connecting the dots.
— Kim Rossmo
He spoke of his lifelong crusade on behalf of fifty-watt lightbulbs. ("Sixty's too bright," he said, "and forty is too dim.
— Jonathan Franzen
Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.
— Peter Jackson
Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.
— Bess Truman
When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.
— Junot Diaz
The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.
— Paul Hoffman
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
— Charles Krauthammer
You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
— David Bowie
A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.
— Grand Puba