Eighty Quotes

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?

Eighty percent of love is smell.

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

Five percent of the people think