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“As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.”

Ifs Men Mind Soul Play Waiting Attention Materials Train Forty Amusement Vacant All Work And No Play

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.”

Feels Years Whole Five Thirty Forty

Author:Stevie Nicks

“To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.”

Feels Should Stills Important Kids Prove Forty Embarrassed Teenage

Author:Keith Richards

“Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.”

Knows Way Children Has Beens Would Be Able Parent Four Influence Forty Desirable

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.”

People Ifs Littles Important Names Sound Loses Imagine Thousand Band Important Things Series Forty Associates Unison

Author:Brian Molko

“Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.”

Years May Doe Facts Dream Bigs Faces Building Truth Is Organization Trade Environmental Obligation Preserves Thirty Fifty Forty Establishment Status Quo Fifty Year Olds

Author:Michael Crichton

“Life begins at age forty.”

Author:Walter B. Pitkin

“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

“I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.”

Author:James A. Michener

“The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.”

Believe Argument Abortion Forty Ethical Hinges

Author:Kevin Nealon

“After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it”

Knows World Trying Years Spiritual Values Names Perfect Known Study Forty Hinduism Philosophic

Book:The Relativity of Hindu Ethics

Source: The Relativity of Hindu Ethics

“There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.”

Should Age Boys Doubt Five Dog Healthy Normal No Doubt Fifty Forty

Author:Robert Benchley

“Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.”

Men Years Waiting Half Enemy Fifty Forty Traps Cunning

Author:Joseph C. Aldrich

“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.”

Mankind Forty Misanthrope

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.”

Long Deals Dangerous Revolution Higher Labor Twenties Agree Endure Expensive Treatment Forty Higher Education Humiliating Infertility Sexual Revolution

Author:Jennifer Morse

“It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.”

“My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.”

Years Used Girl Left Pieces Boxes Forty Crew Pizza Bucks Jam Malls Squat Breakdancing

Author:Vanilla Ice

“For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.”

Knows Years Stills Play Anxiety Bored Forty Coming Out Perpetual Oboes

Author:Marcel Tabuteau

“I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter. I search nation after nation for stocks, asking: 'Where is the one that is lowest-priced in relation to what I believe it's worth?' Forty years of experience have taught me you can make money without ever knowing which way the market is going.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Believe Matter Asks I Believe Nations Knowing Taught Relation Asking Making Money Forty Lowest Years Of Experience

Author:John Templeton

“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.”

Way Writing Littles Real Hard Character Shows Hours Space Half Economy Five Minutes Pages Twenties Series Thirty Forty Pilots Introducing Estates Premises Half Hours

Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein

“It's a combination, I think they want to know - it's for every show, which is I think networks want to know that you have a vision for where the show could go to make sure that it really is a show, that it's not just a one-off forty minute pilot, that it's an actual series.”

Thinking Knows Want Shows Vision Minutes Series Combination Forty Pilots

Author:Bryan Burk

“Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.”

Men Modern Becoming Workers Evening Forty Afternoon Best Work Becoming More Modern Man

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.”

States Left United United States Thousand Wings Thirty Forty Racist Als Professors Supporter Murderer Al Qaeda Left Wing Deviants

Author:Pat Robertson

“Naturally I've known girlies form an attachment to the younger male before now, but in the tennis score of the bedroom most girls in my experience would rather Love Thirty or Love Forty than Love Fifteen. Men, of course, are a whole other issue; they start at Love All and stay there until they're dragged from the court”

Men Whole Form Girl Courses Known Issues Court Males Thirty Tennis Score Forty Attachment Fifteen Bedroom

Book:The Hippopotamus

Source: The Hippopotamus

“Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.”

Knows Age Joy Know How Misery Forty

Book:My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

Source: My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

“No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.”

Hours Week Beats Forty

Author:Bill Rodgers

“Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.”

Seems Five Hundred Strategy Block Meat Realms Forty Pounds Biology Chemicals Quantum Quantum Mechanics

Author:Terence McKenna

“Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.”

Way Firsts Made Stories Wanted Hours Cutting Minutes Directors Add Seven Studios Forty One Minute

Author:Kim Jee-woon

“We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?”

People Knows Said Country Millions Percent Our Country Forty Visa

Author:Rand Paul

“Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.”

Ifs Choices Fall Five Rocks Forty Rock And Roll Rice Jerry Fall Back

Author:Darius Rucker

“You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.”

Knows Feels Incredibles Nine Fifty Forty

Author:David Bowie

“Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.”

Way Years Lasts Easy Hours Five Childhood Forty Reverse Easy Way

Author:Pico Iyer

“My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.”

Years Together Parent Spite Forty

Author:Woody Allen

“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.”

“Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.”

Trying Years Actors Easy Waiting Rooms Forty

Author:George Burns

“When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.”

Shows Jobs Mother Class Dying New York Lows Cancer Agents Dirty Hotel Forty Lowest Show Business Divorced Turned Down

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.”

Years Littles Sin One Day Beats Ears Clean Holiday Forty Retail Absolution

Author:Jon Stewart

“Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.”

Thinking Believe Real Five Percent Evidence Angel Forty Seventies Dna Unreliable Dna Evidence

Author:Richard Jeni

“I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.”

Ifs Years Dies Mistake Forty Accountants

Author:Don Rickles

“Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?”

People Thinking Knows Giving Years Guy Next President Talking Minutes Ought Kings Dollars Phones Cells Forty Deep Down Cell Phone Larry Waiter One Minute Deceptive

Author:Don Rickles

“I'm on this planet for another forty years at the most and I got a baby and a wife and I'm worried about their future and that kind of fear, that anger is spilling into my lyrics, I can't just sit back and talk about myself until I'm dead.”

Years Kind I Can Wife Planets Baby Worried Forty Spilling

Author:Richard Patrick

“For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.”

World Years May Has Beens Produce Married Loyalty Forty Love And Loyalty

Author:Denis Thatcher

“I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.”

Five Stupid Singing Satisfaction Complaining Forty Complaints Rolling Stones

Author:Mick Jagger

“When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?”

Eye House Boys Five Saint Forty Bathroom Ninety Statues Eyes Looking

Author:Pat Cooper

“I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures.”

Years Has Beens Wish Mets Years Ago Cameras Guitar Forty Taking Pictures

Author:Richard Prince

“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.”

Knows Years Two Reason Found Sound Rooms Blood Lows Years Ago Intention Silent Nervous Operations Forty Exploration Expecting Chamber Vibrations Harvard Nervous System Circulation Life Direction

Author:John Cage

“It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love playing acoustically. This is the way I started. Herb and I met each other forty years ago when we were both eighteen years old, playing bluegrass, and that's what drew me into music, and I enjoyed every particular part of my career. But now I enjoy it because it's the twilight of my career, where I can play what I want and I can play when I want and where I want. And that's the greatest part it all. So it's sort of a right that I've earned. I can record records the way I want to.”

Thinking Way Want Years I Can Different Play Enjoy Careers Records Particular Mets Years Ago Appreciate Enjoyed Forty Twilight Herbs Eighteen Bluegrass Eighteen Years Old

Author:Chris Hillman

“One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.”

Men Has Beens Guy President Office Dresses Dancing Forty Clothings Prom Oval

Author:Allison Janney

“Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.”

Years Different Today Young Lying Night Song Poor Years Ago Wine Guitar Seeking Focused Hungry Forty Every Night Gigs

Author:Christy Moore