Quotes and Sayings About Eight
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It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
-- Homer -
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.
-- Horace Silver -
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.
-- Hortense Odlum -
I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.
-- Howard Dean -
It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight
-- Howard Raiffa -
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
-- Howard Staunton -
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.
-- Hugh Laurie -
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
-- Huston Smith -
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
-- Huston Smith -
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
-- Ice Cube -
I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.
-- Idina Menzel -
We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.
-- Izabella Scorupco -
I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.
-- Izabella Scorupco -
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
-- J. G. Ballard -
If you substitute ***** for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
-- Jack Herer -
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
-- Jack Prelutsky -
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
-- Jackson Browne -
To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.
-- Jacqueline Briskin -
There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty are saying that the president is appointed for a mandate of eight years time. I think it would be very damaging for the European Central Bank if there would be a splitting of this mandate.
-- Jacques Santer -
The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten. In that World Open final, Ross got me. It was exactly five years and eight months. I was unbeaten for another nine months after that defeat.
-- Jahangir Khan -
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
-- James A. Michener -
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?
-- James B. Donovan -
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
-- James Broughton -
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.
-- James Hansen -
To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.
-- James Turrell -
What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can do more on prevention but we have crucial needs at the moment just to get people out of poverty and to get the eight hundred million people that go to bed at night hungry, give them some food and some hope.
-- James Wolfensohn -
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.
-- Jamie Bell -
Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
-- Jamie Foxx -
I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.
-- Jamie Redknapp -
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
-- Jane Campion
