Best Forty Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.”

“Giving birth to triplets at the age of forty-three is no walk in the park, but I had little choice. I got married at the young age of forty, and both my husband, Shirish, and I were keen to start a family soon.”

“My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.”

“Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.”

“Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.”

“That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.”

“Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.”

“For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.”

“Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.”

“I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.”

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

“I'm so immature and still feel so young. Forty doesn't feel any different than 30 did.”

“After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.”

“There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.”

“'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot it, plus it has an hour of content. 'The Good Wife' is network. They're shooting on HD. It moves quicker and they only have forty minutes of content instead of a full hour. Not to mention the difference of shooting, you know, rated-R stuff!”

“I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.”

“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!”

“I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.”

“I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge.”

“If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.”

“I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.”

“I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.”

“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”

“When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.”

“I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.”

“A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.”

“When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.”

“I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.”

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

“I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.”

“I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.”

“We used to say, 'I don't wanna be jumping around and going crazy when I'm thirty,' you know? Even Mick Jagger said, 'Well, I can't see myself at forty jumping around.' Well, here we are, you know?”

“I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.”

“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”

“There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.”

“I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.”

“For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.”

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

“My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.”

“Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.”

“You know, 65-year-olds love sneakers because they make them feel forty.”

“There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.”

“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”

“I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.”

“When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.”

“My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.”

“Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.”

“For a woman, forty is torture, the end.”

“Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.”

“Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.”

“In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.”

“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”

“I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.”