Eight Quotes

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have expected that.

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

I was rapping at eight.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.