Eight famous quotes

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Writing #Eight #Scripts

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Eight #Water #Twenties

I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
-- Adam Duritz

#Stupid #Kids #Eight

Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights
-- Adam Sandler

#Crazy #Night #Eight

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?
-- Agnes Repplier

#Eight #Two #Nephew

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

#Baseball #Boys #Eight

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
-- Alan Arkin

#Moving #Eight #People

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.
-- Alan Bradley

#Book #Eight #Heaven

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

#Eight

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

#Time #Eight #Nine

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
-- Alan Kay

#Iphone #Eight #World

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

#Eight #Scary #Twelve

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
-- Alan Rickman

#New York #Eight #Rocks

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
-- Albert Claude

#Real #Heart #Eight

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Eight #Water #Population

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Beautiful #Men #Eight

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.
-- Alec-Tweedie

#Brother #Eight #Years

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Fashion #Destiny #Eight

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Eight #Principles #Chess

Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.
-- Alexandra Fuller

#Animal #Eight #Two

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.
-- Alexey Brodovitch

#Butterfly #Eight #Years

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.
-- Alfred Bester

#Eight #Two #Three

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Acceptance #Men #Eight

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Nice #Eight #Average

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.
-- Ally Carter

#Thinking #Eight #Taurus

In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Eight #Water #Ark

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
-- Amos Oz

#Religious #Eight #Israel

They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Morning #Eight #Perfect

You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable
-- Andrew McMahon

#Blessing #Past #Eight

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
-- Andrew Sullivan

#Mother #Eight #Said

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.
-- Andy Borowitz

#War #Iraq #Eight

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.
-- Andy Samberg

#Night #Rapper #Eight

He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.
-- Anna Gavalda

#Mean #Eight

Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Eight #Years

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.
-- Anna Torv

#Father #Eight

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.
-- Anne Enright

#Cutting #Thinking #Eight

I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?
-- Anne Frank

#Sorry #Eight #Long

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

#Writing #Eight #Pages

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.
-- Anne Rice

#Eye #Eight #Hands

I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Couple #Thinking #Eight

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#Love #Eight #Blood

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

#Art #Growing Up #Eight

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
-- April Winchell

#Sleep #Night #Eight

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
-- Arabella Weir

#Son #Eight #Years

If it turns out that Barry Bonds used ***** to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California
-- Argus Hamilton

#California #Eight #Years

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
-- Ariana Grande

#Eight #Grandparent

At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Heart #Eight #Training

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.
-- Art Buchwald

#Eight #President #Rosemary

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Maturity #Men #Eight

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
-- Arthur Smith

#Funny #Laughter #Eight

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Thinking #Eight #Focus

I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as its great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Eight #Shining #Skins

You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!
-- August Spies

#Men #Illinois #Eight

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.
-- August Spies

#Struggle #Past #Eight

I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.
-- Ava DuVernay

#Mean #Eight #Different

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
-- Bai Ling

#Wise #Crazy #Eight

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.
-- Bar Refaeli

#New York #Eight #Cities

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Home #Winning #Eight

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Home #Eight #Shoes

Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.
-- Barbara Mertz

#Wall #Eight #Feet

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford

#Writing #Thinking #Eight

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
-- Barry Corbin

#Eight #People #Car

I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
-- Bear Grylls

#Fun #Fire #Eight

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
-- Beau Garrett

#Eight #Years #People

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
-- Beck

#Writing #Eight #Years

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
-- Ben Chandler

#Eight #Kentucky #Years

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.
-- Benvenuto Cellini

#Art #Eight #Views

This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this...
-- Betty Smith

#Sleep #Eight #People

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.
-- Bidzina Ivanishvili

#Eight #Different #Peacock

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.
-- Bill Bryson

#Powerful #Beer #Eight

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!
-- Bill Haywood

#Sleep #Eight #Play

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.
-- Bill Hicks

#Sleep #Night #Eight

Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
-- Bill Madlock

#Funny #Men #Eight

I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Night #Eight #Phones

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

#Eight #Years #Trying

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.
-- Billy Carter

#Mother #Eight #Peace Corps

I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
-- Bo Burnham

#Dream #College #Eight

I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.
-- Bob Davids

#Lying #Eight #Feelings

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
-- Bob Lilly

#Football #Player #Eight

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.
-- Bob Seger

#Work #Moving #Eight

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
-- Bob Uecker

#Eight #Long #People

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
-- Bobby Jones

#Eight #Feet #Want

People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working.
-- Bobby Lee

#Eight #Phones #People

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.
-- Brad Carson

#Thinking #Eight #Energy

I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.
-- Brett Favre

#Humble #Thinking #Eight

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
-- Brett Favre

#Football #Believe #Eight

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.
-- Brett Ratner

#Eight #Two #Documentaries

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
-- Brett Ratner

#Eight #Years #Cameras

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Book #Eight #Years

If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.
-- Brian Littrell

#Baby #Boys #Eight

I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.
-- Brock Yates

#Running #Eight #Race

In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance; frequent bleeding between periods was another; in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.
-- Broda Otto Barnes

#Eight #Pms #Fertility

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

#Confidence #Eight #Scary

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

#Eight #Years #Shapes

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Book #Eight #Play

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.
-- Caitlín R. Kiernan

#Atheist #Believe #Eight

To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.
-- Canvass White

#Eight #Engineering #Water

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

#Eight #Firefighter #Luck

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
-- Carla Bruni

#Mother #Eight #Years

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.
-- Carmen Electra

#Eight #Trying #Schedules