#forty

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#answers #because #birth #crazy #drove

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#before #forty #forty years #i #things

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#field #forty #his #i #made

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. ↗

— Leon Blum

#child #forty #her #makes #preserves

Life begins at forty. ↗

— Walter B. Pitkin

#forty #life

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you. ↗

— Kevin Barry

#exhaustion #forty #passions #age

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#ask #because #directions #even #forty

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bypass #doing #even #everything #find