108 Inch Quotes

#1. How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic. p 108

Abraham Verghese

#2. Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Love: that which cannot be done without; wish always to be with, be part of, belong to, know intimately inside and out, entirely, WHOLE-LY, for ever and ever amen.
Shining bright words in amazing patterns of endless variety. Drawing of the inside of my head.
pg. 108

Aidan Chambers

#4. I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

Richard Dooling

#5. I'm going to need to save you."
"Excuse me? No one needs-"
"I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.

Kelley Armstrong

#6. I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Green Day

#7. The Gay Science, section 108

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"
they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

Cornel West

#9. Marla said, This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Surveys of personal values in men and women find that the men assign a lopsided value to professional status compared to all the other pleasures of life.108

Steven Pinker

#11. Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. I truly believe the appeal of my novel ranges in readers from ages 8 to 108. I always challenge myself in my storytelling to make certain that readers of all ages can connect with my character through her journey. I promise you will fall in love with Willow Krimble if you take the journey with her.

Giuseppe Bianco

#13. America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

Frank Carson

#14. If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Andy Pettitte

#15. Having fun?" Instantly Squirrelpaw's head whipped around and her green eyes flashed fury at him. "That's right, have a good laugh, you stupid furball!

Erin Hunter

#16. Indeed in the modern world the word 'love' has been sentimentalized, but the word 'will' has been brutalized. (p. 108)

Larry Schmidt

#17. I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Shirley Temple

#18. The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

Tom McDonough

#19. I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

Emmitt Smith

#20. New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Douglas Coupland

#21. A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Publilius Syrus

#22. There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

Orlando Brown

#23. 108. You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.

Maynard James Keenan

#24. For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.

Diane Schoemperlen

#25. You can only exceed your limits if you've discovered them.

Roel Van Sleeuwen

#26. So, like a treasure found at home, That I have gained without fatigue, My enemies are helpers in my Bodhisattva work And therefore they should be a joy to me. 108. Since I have grown in patience Thanks to them, To them its first fruits I should give, For of my patience they have been the cause.

Santideva

#27. So young, my lord, and true.

William Shakespeare

#28. Earthenware or pure gold, what goes into them for certain purposes establishes what they are; whatever their fundamental constitution as vessels, when full of shit (for example) they can only be shit pots.108

T. Tanner

#29. Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!

Edgar Guest

#30. The number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. And suddenly I feel weak, like every question in my head has collided against each other and won't let me think. (pg. 108)

Mary E. Pearson

#32. Cry 'Havoc!'108 and let slip109 the dogs of war,

William Shakespeare