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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. — Gloria Swanson

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry

People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong. — Chet Baker

Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world. — Janet Fitch

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof. — Mariska Hargitay

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him? — Ann Dunham

I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside. — Ana De La Reguera

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart. — Garth Brooks

When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics. — Ken Olsen

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult. — Chelsea Handler

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'. — Graham Hancock

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'. — Jeremy Piven

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old. — Wes Borland

I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair. — Bob Hope

Study: 60% of young Americans plan to buy firearms. The other 40% were confused, saying they thought they were free under Obamacare. — Fred Thompson

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! — Nathan Lane

I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week. For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill or walking. — Martina Mcbride

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days. — Francis Ford Coppola

I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age." — Christian Hosoi

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work. — Larry Wall

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D. — Jamie Oliver

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had. — Giada De Laurentiis

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me. — Rachel Hunter

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. — Dana Stabenow

I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films. — Kevin Spacey

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food. — Hugh Casson

Running is WD-40 for the mind. — Corey Irwin

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion ... I want all that God has or I don't want any. — A.W. Tozer

A nice thing about being 40 is that you're not a kid about your understanding of sex or sexuality anymore. — Guy Branum

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time. — Warren Farrell

The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40. — Iman

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year. — John Garamendi

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story. — Cilla Black

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us. — Zachary Cole Smith

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40. — Andie MacDowell

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. — Eileen Myles

If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White. — Tony Jarrett

You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of. — Chelsea Handler

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty. — Thomas Perez

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue. — Hugh Bonneville

No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week. — J. Willard Marriott

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done. — Dick Cheney

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40. — James Thurber

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day. — Neil Diamond

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages. — Tom Verica

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? — Al Capp

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it. — Mary Chase

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues. — Merrill Markoe

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people. — Peter Bart

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16. — Jodie Foster

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40. — Sylvia Kristel

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be. — Lillie Langtry

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. — Warren Beatty

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense. — Jason Statham

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. — Golda Meir

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned. — Albert Schweitzer

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then. — Jane Seymour

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rooney

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament — Roy Hattersley

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed. — George A. Romero

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.' — Taylor Swift

People's youthful quirks can harden into adult pathologies. What's adorable at 20 can be worrisome at 30 and dangerous at 40. — Pamela Druckerman

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. — Thomas Boswell

BRUICHLADDICH 40 YO WHERE: ITC Gardenia, Bangalore PRICE: Rs 29,000 for a 60ml shot; — Anonymous

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. — Virginia Postrel

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period. — Charlie Trotter

Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything! — Kansai Yamamoto

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. — Nadia Giosia

There are 40 shades of silence in the wild woods. — Rosie Swale-Pope

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent. — Susan Rice

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops. — Tony Sirico

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well. — Warren Buffett

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it. — Charles Stross

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting. — Jennifer Lopez

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children. — Daphne Zuniga

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude. — Anders Holm

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. — Jason Hirschhorn

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head. — William J. Casey

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil. — Gabriel Ba

Shit!' cried the king, and 40 thousand stooped and strained. — Robert Leland Taylor

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. — Toby Young

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

The 2015 edition updates the 2013 edition with more than 40 pages of new content. — D.K. Segraves

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious. — Nick Mason

about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country's population, were opium addicts. — Yuval Noah Harari

Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40 percent end up in a nursing home, and 20 percent are never able to walk again. — Atul Gawande

Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky. — Andrew Skurka

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. — Jonathan Tropper

I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40. — Tim Howard

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. — Lorna Luft

It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread. — Narendra Modi

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. — Scott Cook

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there. — Billy Bob Thornton

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people. — Steven Magee

Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40. — Christopher McDougall

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. — Benoit Mandelbrot