#forty years

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#ask #because #directions #even #forty

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bypass #doing #even #everything #find

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#barack #barack obama #forty #forty years #four

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#been #fiction #forty #forty years #recording

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries. ↗

— Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

#been #countries #during #forty #forty years

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#been #done #forty #forty years #me

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books