Eight Quotes
Eight Quote of the day
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.
When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.
Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.
I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'
Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.
Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.
Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.