In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn’t buy property in most places.
It’s one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don’t play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they’re pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
I’ve always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolside or at their home, they always wore a matte red lipstick with practically no foundation – it was how they wore makeup in real life.
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I’d say you were crazy.
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody’s in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
I don’t know how we’re going to have this baby because I’m in my forties and I can’t even remember my first son’s name. But I’m going to have another baby because I’m feeling good.
I don’t half love being in my forties! You feel more grown-up and can say ‘no’ to things without feeling you’re letting the whole team down. You don’t have to worry about pleasing other people all the time. You just feel more comfortable in yourself.
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who’ve become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master’s thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn’t find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn’t read Faulkner.
If you look at most successful startups, they’re run by people in their mid to late forties, who’ve gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it’s very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
In your teens and twenties, death doesn’t exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I’m sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
I’d love to be a NASCAR driver because they’re, like, in their forties and fifties.
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don’t play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
I do what I wanna do and I see who I wanna see. And when you get into your forties, it’s like being a teenager again, really. Everyone else in their forties thinks they can chat to you.
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I’m sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Forties are good! I’m thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It’s a wonderful decade where you’re in control of yourself but the women are still interested.
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.
When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
I actually think I’m lucky. Because blokes who lose their hair at a later age, in their thirties and forties, get hung up about it. Because they had hair and then lose it. But I’ve never had that problem.
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties – men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
A lot of people like me, who’ve been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.
I was broke into my forties.
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