Best Forty Eight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.”

Ifs Moments Bigs Might Lasts Water Minutes Degrees Twenties Wave Eight Forty Drowning Forty Eight

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.”

“I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.”

Ifs Years Age Five Months Aging Eight Forty Sixty Fifteen Forty Eight Geriatrics

Author:James Thurber

“In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.”

Film Moving Used Steps Hell Six Assuming Eight Drawing Thirty Forty Pace Timing Sheer Rapids Sneak Animator Tiptoes Single Step Forty Eight

Author:Chuck Jones

“While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.”

“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”

Men Long Matter Wisdom Women Wise Average Eight Forty Forty Eight

Book:A little book in C major

Source: A little book in C major

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”

Ifs Knows Men Inspirational Littles Too Much Optimism Optimistic Pessimism Optimist Pessimist Being Optimistic Optimism And Pessimism Optimists And Pessimists Forty Eight

Author:Mark Twain

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”

Men Should Book Reason Change Library Eight Reason Why Forty No Reason Eighteen Forty Eight

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.”

Running Past Waiting Hours Lines Steps Worst Car Bases Eight Enjoyed Forty Drivers Trapped Forty Eight

Book:Every Boy's Got One

Source: Every Boy's Got One

“Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.”

Feels Wells Pain Remember Hours News Eight Forty Hospitals Good News Emma No Pain Forty Eight Parsley

Author:Joss Whedon

“I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the package," Collin explained. "Think of it as a collective gift from all of us to you: five bona fide annoying and overly intrusive new best friends." "It's the gift that keeps on giving," Wilkins said. Jack grinned. "I'm touched. Really. And since it appears I'm going to be moving in, let me be the first to say that all of you are always welcome at my and Cameron's house. Subject to a minimum of forty-eight hours prior notification.”

Source: Something About You

“Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.”

Thinking Writing Humans Problem Realizing Human Beings Honest Emotional Messages Eight Sensitive Forty Ringo Forty Eight

Author:Ringo Starr

“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.”

Ifs Feels Today Hours Emotion Too Much Happened Rain Skins Tired Eight Forty Coats Numb I'm Tired Umbrella Forty Eight

Book:The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

“The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.”

Ifs Should Lasts Moving Responsible Dollars Investment Eight Chess Forty Starvation Pawns Capital Investment Forty Eight

Author:William Ewart Napier

“The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.”

Thinking Said Funny Hours Sleep Known Taken Four Tree Eight Miles Forty Laziness Fifteen Long Life Eighteen Sloth Indolence Cheetahs Forty Eight

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.”

Years Enough Records Eight Forty Enough Time Forty Eight

Author:Larisa Latynina

“He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.”

Hours Wonder Eight Forty Pigs Rabbits Upside Down Corrections Forty Eight

Author:Julia Quinn

“I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.”

States Views Tired Eight Forty Highways Interstate Forty Eight

Author:Steve Earle