Top 18 Quotes About Being 41
#1. I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.
Bonnie Raitt
#3. ... why do men continue to practice in themselves, the absurdities they despise in others?
Thomas Paine, The rights of man: being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution (2nd edn, Philadelphia, 1791), p. 41.
Thomas Paine
#4. We want it visible
to show
when even the most
visible joy
will reveal itself
only when we have
transformed it within.
there's nowhere, my love, the
world can exist
expect within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#5. There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#6. The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.
Louis C.K.
#7. Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
Bill Watterson
#8. Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#9. I don't want to waste my time, being another casualty of society
Sum 41
#10. The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.
Roland Barthes
#11. The best writing is embarrassing; that's all there is to it.
A.D. Posey
#12. I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
Salma Hayek
#13. I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.
Leighton Meester
#15. When the mind is creating troubles, it's time to come back to the body and the serenity of the present moment.
Dan Millman
#16. Bacon distrusts the people, who were in his day quite without access to education; "the lowest of all flatteries is the flattery of the common people";41 and "Phocion took it right, who, being applauded by the multitude, asked, What had he done amiss?
Will Durant
#17. I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
Jeremy Northam
#18. I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.
Bob Filner