Forty Quotes - Page 16

• I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

  Tom Waits

  Ice Cream, Two, House

  Song: Ice Cream Man, 2006

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• Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Lying, Dirty, Israel

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Two, Deep Thought

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old
  woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it,
  she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

  David Letterman

  Years, Two Year Olds, Dating

  David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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• All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

  Walt Disney

  Country, Dream, Thinking

  "The Magic Kingdom : Walt Disney and the American Way of Life". Book by Steven Watts, 2001.

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• Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Soldier, Century

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.63, Fireship Press

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Average, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Growing Up, Animal

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• There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Pride, Animal, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.158, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

  Michiel Huisman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

  Shigeru Egami

  Years, Interesting, Able

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• Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

  Louise Andrews Kent

  Years, Mind, Seven

  Louise Andrews Kent (1953). “"...with Kitchen Privileges."”

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• Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Order, Years, Form

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

  John Dryden

  Looks, Fats, Young

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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• When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.

  Louise Andrews Kent

  Years, Symphony, Long

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• 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.

  Duke of Wellington

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.

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• 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.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Years, People

  "Sens. Reed, Cornyn Talk 'Ground Zero Mosque,' Immigration Reform and Afghanistan". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Eye, Artist, Circles

  "Caspar David Friedrich's Der Watzmann: German Romantic Landscape Painting and Historical Geology". Timothy Mitchell, "The Art Bulletin", Volume 66, No. 3 (pp. 452-464), September 1984.

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• 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!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Player, Men

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

  Walter Mosley

  Girl, Children, Two

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Devil in a Blue Dress: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Elliott White Springs

  Sports, Wine, Player

  Elliott White Springs, A. Roy Brown, Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Norman Shannon Hall (1929). “Pilots' Luck”

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• 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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Philosophical, Race, Years

  "The Struggle with the Demon". Book by Stefan Zweig, transl. by Marion Sonnenfeld, p. 256, 1929.

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