If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act. . . well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy
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!
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
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.
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.
Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.
A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.
Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
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.
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.