Eight Quotes

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I am single, I don't drink. It's kind of hard to get a woman buzzed when you don't drink. You'll be like, "Yeah, I'll have a glass of water, you want a shot of Jäger? You want eight of 'em?"

There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.

Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands.

I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

And I think Trump wants to change America to make it great again for a generation, not just for eight years.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

I got eight O-levels at school...zero in every subject.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: "Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president."

Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

I've been a huge horror fan since I was about eight years old, which is a little bit young to be watching scary movies.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

We're doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.

It is actually a very good thing, if after eight years of coverage the president of the United States [Barack Obama] says that this is a cooperation based on friendship that we cooperated well.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.