Eighths Quotes

#1. One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

Steven Pressfield

#2. Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Delmore Schwartz

#3. What physicians call perspirable matter is that vapour which passes off from our bodies, from the lungs, and through the pores of the skin. The quantity of this is said to be five eighths of what we eat. - Author.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

Joanna Lumley

#6. And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she's so different from him. She's as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. She even talks back to the Sarge, which is like watching a mouse bark at a pitbull.

M.R. Carey

#7. I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. If, in picking a quarrel, each party declined to go more than three-eighths of the way, and if, in making friends, each was ready to go five-eighths of the way - why, there would be more reconciliations than quarrels!

Lewis Carroll

#9. The message was contained in a sealed lead wafer that was two inches square and three-eighths of an inch thick. The wafer itself was contained in a gold mesh reticule which was hung on a stainless steel band clamped to the shaft that might be called Salo's neck.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

Edwin Lefevre

#11. She's as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone.

M.R. Carey

#12. Below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.

Lee Child

#13. Nature is not anthropomorphic.

Laozi

#14. Being unhappy means ... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.

Min Sook Lee

#15. Principles that drive equilibrium in nature's design also power human design.

Maggie Macnab

#16. Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.

Dita Von Teese

#17. When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can't help but think, You just haven't taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

Caitlin Moran

#18. To flee from the battle is the worst thing that could happen. It is worse than losing the fight, because we can always learn something from defeat; if we flee, all we do is declare that our enemy has won.

Paulo Coelho

#19. Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.

Joshua Foa Dienstag

#20. Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

Rick Yancey

#21. I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

Trent Reznor

#22. When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

Whitney Houston

#23. If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Thomas Merton

#24. We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

Nelson Mandela