Eight Quotes

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.

It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,” I said. “Keep it up!

Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire story! His wife is running around and solving the case!

I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was.

America hasn't been leading anything. We have been blamed the last eight years [2008-2016]. The United States has been nothing special about us. American exceptionalism was mocked and laughed at.

When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight".

Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three.

When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films.

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.