So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.
Michel Legrand
GoThreeThirtyWriteFortySee
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
Dorothy Thompson
WomenVoteWashingtonWhyFortyOwn
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
William Osler
LifeAgeTeacherThreeStudyForty
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk
DressRichViewBelongingFortyFar
I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.
Gianni Agnelli
EnoughCreditNewMeanFortyBuying
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!
David Prowse
TechnologyBetterMoviesFirstForty
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
Red Cloud
LiveWorldDieYouFortyFifty
Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.
Gene Ween
FortyWhereMinutesFrontReally
Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
Sabine Baring-Gould
SucceedFortyYearsSeeFullHe
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
G. H. Hardy
BestPastFortyLittleProfessor
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
Joan Rivers
FunnyMeYouWillFortySixty
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
John Legend
MusicAgeBlackThreeHip-HopForty
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
Robert Brustein
PeopleFortyYearsStillScreamHis
Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
Michael Parkinson
ManTalkFortyYearsBeenOdd
For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
Brunello Cucinelli
FragranceSameFortyYearsWorn
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
Phyllis Diller
DriveSexAdmitFortyMilesAway
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
Leon Blum
WomanChildYoungThirtySheForty
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
Gina Barreca
WomenWineChocolateCheeseForty
Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.
Charles Duhigg
FortyElectronicsPercentSold
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.
Paul Feig
YouNowKidFortyLinePretend
When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'
Heber J. Grant
AgeMeDoingYouFortyYears
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
P. J. O'Rourke
NewFortyYearsOutIsraelJersey
Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
Fabrice Grinda
WorldRestIndiaPlacesFortyChina
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
Jerry Seinfeld
PeopleThinkYouFortyStageBegin
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