Nell Scovell Quotes

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

I feel a bit weird about turning 40. It makes you feel like you've passed over on to the other side a bit.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.

Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

My face doesn't look the same way it did at 39. My body doesn't look the same way it did at 39.

I'm 38, and everyone is making a big deal out of it because I got a few gray hairs cropping in my sides.