138 Forty Quotes for You to Enjoy

The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements. Jay Parini

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. Jean Anouilh

You Half Past Seventy Forty Nearly Belongs

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be. John Cleese

You Jokes Comedy Joke Guess Pretty Know Most Doing Been Years Going Much Really Forty Forty Years Even Specific

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty. John Hickenlooper

Mother Before She Turned Forty Twice Widowed

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three. John Legend

Music Age Natural Black Three Consider Synergy Black Music Pretty Part Between Well Knows Gospel Hip-Hop Anybody Forty

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it. John Ritter

You King Other Out Bad Some Charlie Pretty Bad Guy About Guy Beat Said Always Yes Sir Crap After Movies Much Meant Your Forty Dad Watched

In 1928, radio networks like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) extended nationwide - any major political address could expect to reach forty million listeners. Joseph Cummins

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church. Karl Lehmann

Time Good School Church Long Bishops Dimension Has-Been Introducing Been Years Existed Span Us Forty Forty Years Universal

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it. Kevin Spacey

Love You Yourself Singing Nothing Those Locomotive Would More Between Feels Like Piece Audience Microphone Front Quite Orchestra Just Where Just One Much Forty Standing Describe Things

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. Larry David

Life Generation Will Heritage Ensure At Least One More Misery Over Empty Pass Least Continue Years Led Forty Forty Years Now

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same. Lawrence Schiller

Day Great Creative Single Every Mine Alive Though Photographers Photographs Seem Week Annie Pictures Look Most She Known Single Day Brad Brad Pitt Years Friend Close Celebrities Close Friend Same Just Pitt Forty Forty Years Who Even Actor Every Single Day Great Actor

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. Leigh Steinberg

Nil Athlete Prosecuting Journalists Practically Were Years Years Ago Authorities Pro Pro Athlete Reporting Forty Forty Years Even Chances

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Buy Alone Money Three Saved Enough Medium-Sized Enough Money Castle Castles Simply Insurance Years Owning Forty Forty Years Last

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. Mac Thornberry

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. Marcel Duchamp

Enthusiasm Highly Attracted Chess Years Little Then Forty Forty-Five

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. Maria Monk

Before Rich Took Chapel Dress About Had Veil Perhaps Altar Occasions Clothed Convent Which Placed Far Ceremony View Used Forty Who Spectators Belonging Number

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. Maurice Ashley

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

Man Married He Talk Knows Odd Been Years Anybody Forty

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick. Mick Ralphs

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business. Mika Brzezinski

News Me Business Old Job Assumed Back TV Given Directors Almost Over Message Passed Camera Years Get Trying Managers Certainly Forty Forty Years Who Career

There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time. Mike McCready

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot. Nancy Johnson

Good You World Treat Easier All The Difference About Instead Like Match Makes Matches Forget Just Difference Little Mean Shot Forty

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

Myself Family Thirty Thirty-Five Visions Having Being Forty

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