Quotes and Sayings About Eight

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.
-- John McGraw

#Past #Eight #Feet

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
-- John Mica

#Friday #Two #Eight

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.
-- John Newcombe

#Eight #Eric #World

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid.
-- John Pilger

#Mother #Eight #Land

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.
-- John Tesh

#Song #Fun #Eight

I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.
-- John Varvatos

#Brother #Eight #Dna

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.
-- Johnny Knoxville

#Doctors #Eight #Phones

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Eight #Gone #Months

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Night #Eight #Downtown

I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on ***** eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Eight #Years #Wife

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!
-- Johnny Thunders

#Eight #Pages #Attention

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
-- Jon Fishman

#Eight #Zeppelins #Seven

Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.
-- Jonathan Alter

#Country #Dream #Eight

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
-- Jonathan Frid

#Eight #Years #People

I got into politics when I was eight years old. Six years now. And I got involved because I started listening to talk radio. It goes back to one event. The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules,
-- Jonathan Krohn

#Eight #Years #Listening

I got into politics when I was eight years old.
-- Jonathan Krohn

#Eight #Years

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
-- Jonathan Stroud

#Two #Eight #Sixteen

Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.
-- Jonathan Stroud

#Eight #Feet #Boots

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Eight #Two #Twelve

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.
-- Jose Mourinho

#Football #Reality #Eight

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.
-- Jose Mujica

#Eight #Doe #Levels

The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.
-- Joseph P. Allen

#Sunset #Eight #Blue

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
-- Joshua Slocum

#Patience #Philosophical #Eight

I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.
-- Josip Broz Tito

#Country #Eight #Two

Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.
-- Joss Whedon

#Pain #Eight #News

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
-- Juan Manuel Marquez

#Brother #Father #Eight

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
-- Julian Casablancas

#Mom #Eight #Parent

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
-- Julian Fellowes

#Eight #Cameras #Actors

I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.
-- Julian McMahon

#Sex #Eight #Doubt

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
-- Julie Delpy

#Eight #Years #Directors