#forty

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#father #forty #fourth #gangs #had

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#every #every man #forty #man #over

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#been #focus #forty #forty years #funny

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#between #choruses #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#children #forty #home #million #moms

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#army #care #could #daily #doctor

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought. ↗

— Peter Steele

#day #doing #every #five #forty

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #around #bay #beach #became