40 Years Quotes

#1. For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

Nick Hornby

#2. The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

John Hench

#3. I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old
he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

Talib Kweli

#4. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where you leave office in your 50s and you can live another 40 years, easily. That's a lot of time.

David Mandel

#5. If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

Arlo Guthrie

#6. He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.

Liev Schreiber

#7. My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.

Corbin Bernsen

#8. It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture ...

Paul Cezanne

#9. The geographer and politician Edwin Brooks argued more than 40 years ago that what we had to avoid was a dystopian future of a 'crowded glowering planet of massive inequalities of wealth buttressed by stark force and endlessly threatened by desperate men in the global ghettoes'.2 These

Paul Rogers

#10. I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

Lou Holtz

#11. After 40 years of marriage, isn't it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.

Kaylin McFarren

#12. You've got to have faith to make the journey. For some, it might take 40 days; for others, 40 years. And, unfortunately, there will be many that will never see their promise become a reality at all - not because God can't do it - because they don't have the faith to believe that he really can

Hannah Keeley

#13. Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

Michael Robotham

#14. I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

Neil Simon

#15. 40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

Misty Copeland

#16. If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

Joshua Lederberg

#17. When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

Ronald Reagan

#18. My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.

Michael Douglas

#19. There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition] this country is going to the dogs. There has been no development in our art or literature for 30 or 40 years.

Joseph Pennell

#20. I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

Ed Begley Jr.

#21. It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

Martin Rees

#22. I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Theodore White

#23. If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.

Keith Anderson

#24. Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

Lionel Richie

#25. I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

Tim Conway

#26. You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

Leon Panetta

#27. When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"

Mike Royer

#28. Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

Bob Newhart

#29. By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Zac Goldsmith

#30. I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

Peter Thiel

#31. It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Mary Cheney

#32. I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

John Legend

#33. Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

Keeley Hawes

#34. I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

Oscar Robertson

#35. I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.

Percy Julian

#36. My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

Davy Rothbart

#37. We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.

Brendan Iribe

#38. I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. I am not going to be a hypocrite and sit here and say something different.

Martin McGuinness

#39. What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

John Stossel

#40. Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

Mary Ellen Mark

#41. When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

Ismail Haniyeh

#42. What if you save for 40 years, putting off all kinds of opportunities, then get hit by a bus the day before retirement? Better to plan for the future while also living in the present.

Chris Guillebeau

#43. I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Cher

#44. When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only to do the movie and establish the characters, you know, you love the one you're doing. It was because there are all these great stories, what a wealth of drama.

Lauren Shuler Donner

#45. Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

Sol LeWitt

#46. After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

April Gornik

#47. I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight ... You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet

Kanye West

#48. Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

Leon Panetta

#49. No civilian has been allowed to see the gold in Fort Knox since 1974, nearly 40 years ago.

Brad Meltzer

#50. The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films.

Emanuel Azenberg

#51. Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

Gina McCarthy

#52. I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Frank McCourt

#53. I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Hillary Clinton

#54. In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.

Stephen Hawking

#55. The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

George Lucas

#56. Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.

Theresa May

#57. Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Dave Grohl

#58. I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

Baba Kalyani

#59. I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

Urs Fischer

#60. I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

Olympia Snowe

#61. If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.

Bill McKibben

#62. Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

Ken Olsen

#63. If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago.

Charlie Munger

#64. Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Joe Namath

#65. In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

Daniel Ellsberg

#66. I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

Gwen Verdon

#67. I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Dustin Hoffman

#68. We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.

Summer Sanders

#69. When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Will McDonough

#70. There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'

Elizabeth McCracken

#71. Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.

Ronald Reagan

#72. I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'

Joanna Lumley

#73. Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

Nicole Kidman

#74. Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.

Kara Swisher

#75. Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

Lionel Richie

#76. Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

Gary Sinise

#77. A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Jerry Saltz

#78. True love that lasts forever ... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

Zooey Deschanel

#79. If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Alan Jackson

#80. This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

Tom Vilsack

#81. I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed ... Whatever floats your boat.
Tiberius of Triad
C.O.A series

Kim Cormack

#82. 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

#83. I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

Johnny Mathis

#84. I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

Nick Mancuso

#85. After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Jaime Lerner

#86. Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

Charles Stross

#87. My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed ... It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts ... The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.

Nils Heribert-Nilsson

#88. The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

Robert Burns

#89. When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

William Nicholson

#90. 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

#91. Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.

Brandon Flowers

#92. After a war of about 40 years, undertaken by the most stupid [Claudius], maintained by the most dissolute [Nero], and terminated by the most timid [Domitian] of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island [of Britain] submitted to the Roman yoke.

Edward Gibbon

#93. I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Joe Biden

#94. I think the future for young chefs is much brighter than it was 40 years ago. Because people have become so much more interested in food. That will not stop. We cannot go back now. We cannot go back to frozen.

Andre Soltner

#95. We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Edward James Olmos

#96. Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

David Hayter

#97. There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

Jill Scott

#98. If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff.

Mike Royer

#99. I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.

Coco Austin

#100. It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Brian P. Cleary