Quotes of: Forties Keyword

I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many compliments on it. I love the Julie Hewett Rouge Noir: it's sort of a forties red.

Stephanie March

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

E. L. Doctorow

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

David Prowse

Carter Chambers: Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Edward Cole: Like smoke through a keyhole.

The Bucket List

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

Barbara Cartland

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters." "You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...] "But I came far. Miles can be years.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Walter Lord

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t need anymore of that sound. So if you’re going to do it and can’t stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t hold it in, at least go by yourself across the forty ...

New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into the world to make a living. The lads went through many a perilous adventure but came home in the end, unscathed, to help their mot...

Once Upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

A Fatal Waltz

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

Stefan Sagmeister

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.

Jane Rule

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

I had a dream about you last night... you made a beard for yourself out of forty two bags of Twizzlers.

I Had a Dream About You

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch.

To Love, Honour And Betray

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.

Two-Way Street

Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

The Rum Diary

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

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Peter Benchley