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“There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.”

People World Five Forty Hamburgers

Author:Don Van Vliet

“A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.”

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?”

Eye Process Forget Half Listening Months Ears Seven Our Society Forty Pregnancy Fifth Civilisation

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“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.”

Men Doors Minutes He Man Bed Bored Forty Bedroom

Book:How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

“I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!”

Remember Sides Air Movement Instinct Deeper Forty

Author:Camille Pissarro

“One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.”

“In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.”

Believe Littles Moments Helping Spirit I Believe Hours Decision Responsibility Information Battle Forty Encouraging Spurs Spur Of The Moment

Author:George S. Patton

“Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).”

Games Winning Nine Forty Pitching Dean

Author:Dizzy Dean

“Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.”

People Way Feels Should Years Care Suffering Forget Gone Player Happened Normal Baseball Relation Forty Never Forget Cuba County Pitching

Author:Luis Tiant

“...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."”

“It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.”

Men Way Said Ideas Different Talking Fields Balance Battle Thousand Equal Forty Very True Being Equal Reinforcement Way Of Talking

Author:Duke of Wellington

“But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.”

People Knows World Years Country States Facts Lasts United United States Five Thousand Intention Around The World Borders Forty Mexico Last Year Pathways Demonstrating

Author:John Cornyn

“Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.”

Author:Tori Amos

“What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.”

Eye Together Artist Space Vision Five Effects Degrees Creating Hundred Presses Circles Landscape Forty Angle Viewers

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”

Men Years Has Beens Made Young Music Player Jazz Complaining Nervous Forty Tenors

Author:Cannonball Adderley

“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.”

Writing Has Beens Enough Shows Sea Television Lucky Creatures Ocean Forty Wildlife Television Shows

Author:Peter Benchley

“Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.”

Children Two Age Earth Young Girl Dangerous Creatures Exception Forty Fifteen

Book:Devil in a Blue Dress: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story

Source: Devil in a Blue Dress: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story

“The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.”

Men World Years Games Heaven Sports Hours Player Blood Dangerous Tables Wine Nervous Fascinating Aviation Forty Combat Stakes Ruined Spectators Nervous System Recess Forfeit

Book:Pilots' Luck

Source: Pilots' Luck

“Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.”

Years Race Wife Bed Intellectual Philosophical Forty

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.”

Knows Men Should Years Believe Feelings Film Audience Five He Man Protect Six Don't Believe Five Years Forty Mature Old Man Mentality Youngsters Five Year Olds Six Year Olds

Author:Shirley Temple

“Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.”

Knows Men Years Married Odd Forty

Author:Michael Parkinson

“If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?”

Ifs Giving Winning Chance Five Percent Vote Fifty Chairs Forty Electric Injection Electric Chair Lethal Injection

Author:Michael Badnarik

“Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.”

People Should Home Hours Dark Successful Five Office Caught Winner Forty Loser Afternoon Successful People Minimum Earning Caught Up Maximum Rush Hour

Author:Neal Boortz

“After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

Ifs World Years Wells Persons States School United United States Conditions Majors Research Currents Conclusion Appropriate Forty

Book:Developing talent in young people

Source: Developing talent in young people

“Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.”

Thinking Courses Forty Diamond Breakfast At Tiffanys Tacky

Author:Holly Golightly

“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”

Men Seems Morning Cold Six Paris Forty March Firing Squad

Book:The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war

Source: The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war

“I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me”

Age Saws Forty Good Writers

Author:Pat Mora

“I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'”

People Thinking World Years Looks Sometimes Home Gone Minutes Cry This World Fool Ten Wake Up Twenties Hey Thirty Fifty Forty Sixty

Author:J. California Cooper

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

Children Young Twenties Preserves Thirty Forty Selflessness

Author:Leon Blum

“The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.”

Ifs Men Heart Stills He Man Capitalism Twenties Forty Socialist Free Market

Author:Aristide Briand

“The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.”

“I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.”

Years Pain Lasts Easy Dollars Errors Billions Temptation Vulnerability Damage Forty Crash Null

Author:Tony Hoare

“In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”

Said War Country Order United Millions Land Population Kingdoms Bread Settling Civil War Acquire Empires Forty Bloody Statesmen Surplus United Kingdom Bread And Butter

Author:Cecil Rhodes

“Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.”

Years Looks Different Home Light Care Lying Night Stars Dark Space Wonder Sky Enthusiasm Aliens Staring Forty Ufo Night Sky Star Gazing Astronomers Points Of Light

Author:Frank Drake

“One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.”

Needs Years Firsts Has Beens Prayer Wife My Wife Meaningful Factors Preparation Knees Forty Prayer Life Fiance Years Of Marriage

Author:James Dobson

“Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk”

Music Innovation Jazz Forty New Things Monk Jazz Music Charlie Dizzy

Author:John Lewis

“Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”

Men Self Age Turns Force Natural Trade Seeking Dues Destroyed Forty Occupation Intensity

Author:John Jay Chapman

“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.”

Years I Can Generations Empty Misery Forty Heritage Empty Life

Author:Larry David

“The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.”

Years Has Beens Done Forty

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.”

Years Book Helping Literature Happened Reader Ordinary Appreciate Stress Credit Forty Comment Bad Times

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.”

Thinking Years Long Stills I Can Actors Left Stars Example Long Time Forty Dean Calendars Short Time Stardom

Author:Leonard Maltin

“All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.”

Writing Years Has Beens Enough Play Form Found Existence Novel Five Expression Mere I Realized Five Years Contradiction Forty Resolve Dilemma

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.”

Dream Waste Understood Forty Wasted Time

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.”

Voice Ought Wake Up Forty Frightened Voice Of God

Author:Jane Rule

“Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result.”

Ifs Years Long Different Ends Hard Term Results Pay Hell Huge Return Six Percent Twenties Long Term Thirty Expensive Forty Eighteen Thirty Years Discounts

Author:Charlie Munger

“I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.”

World Mean Littles Differences Forget Like You Easier Shots Treats Forty

Author:Nancy Johnson

“I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty or forty years. But perhaps this is true of most writers—the emotional storage is done very early on.”

Years Book Done Written Emotional Twenties Thirty Forty Storage

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“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

“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.”

Ifs Writing Two Three Asks Needed Directors Casts Thirty Fifty Forty Melody Duos

Author:Michel Legrand

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!”