Quotes and Sayings About Eight
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I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.
-- Graeme Base -
I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?
-- Greg Evigan -
Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.
-- Greg Mortenson -
I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success.
-- Griffith John -
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made
-- Guillermo del Toro -
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films
-- Guillermo del Toro -
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
-- Guru Nanak -
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
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.
-- Guy Lafleur -
I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.
-- Guy Pearce -
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.
-- Gyles Brandreth -
My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
-- Haley Reinhart -
A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
-- Hallie Ephron -
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.
-- Hans Rosling -
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
-- Harlan Coben -
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
-- Harriet Tubman -
Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours.
-- Harry Burns -
You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
-- Harvey Fierstein -
Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.
-- Harvey Keitel -
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
-- Hayden Christensen -
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.
-- Helen Mirren -
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .
-- Helen Mirren -
If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.
-- Henriette Mantel -
You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.
-- Henry Cavill -
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!
-- Henry Morgenthau, Jr. -
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.
-- Herbert Gutman -
I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.
-- Heston Blumenthal -
I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.
-- Heston Blumenthal
