Quotes About Forty

For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be at this stage in life.

The priests told the people that whoever brought fagots to burn heretics would have an indulgence to commit sins for forty days.

I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.

I think I would like to work in the Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter." "Only in parts," said Ryelle. "The Old Levels." "You can't work in the Library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself.

Cathy recognized the voice before her last name was spoken. She turned to see her ex-boyfriend Kevin standing behind her in the bookstore. Her stomach sank a little. But, one of the by-products of meeting a man later in life was that he would end up meeting some ex-boyfriends along the way. She didn't think Ben would mind. It was a part of life. Part of being forty.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.

I have no belief in luck. I am not superstitious, but it is impossible, when you have reached forty and are conspicuously unsuccessful, not sometimes to half-believe in a malign providence.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change.

The obscure discovery of a reclusive mathematician in Cornwall forty years earlier who had found a missing number between nine and ten.

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

Imposed isolation began with that thirty-day rule in 1348 but was then extended to forty days in 1403. The label "quarantine" stuck because cuarànta means "forty days

off, and the American Empire declines slowly, we could spend the rest of our thirties parodying our twentysomething personas and retire at age forty after pimping our nubile selves.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

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

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

Nature begins to harmonize the emotions of love and sex in the individual between the ages of thirty and forty, so that he may draw upon these great forces and apply them jointly as stimuli to action.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.