“Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.”
Bette Davis
“Today is a big day in TV history. On this day forty-one years ago, the Beverly Hillbillies aired for the first time right here on CBS. They took a little break, then in 1992, they moved into the White House for eight years.”
David Letterman
“When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.”
Harry Belafonte
“And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”
Bible
“Forty-four sharks is a lot of sharks. It's exciting stuff. I'm ecstatic. It was a really good week.”
Jack Morris
“Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.”
Mike Royko
“Eighty-four were successful. Forty-eight violated the terms and returned to jail.”
Nancy Vinson