So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.
Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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.
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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.
I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.
After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
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.
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.
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!