Quotes About Eight

#1. For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

Corey Haim

#2. Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

Conan O'Brien

#3. I drink at least five bottles of water a day and always get eight hours of sleep.

Rebecca Gayheart

#4. Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

Sandra Lee

#5. I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

Karrie Webb

#6. Dietary patterns are set at a very early age - somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#7. I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

#8. Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.

Jay Leno

#9. We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.

Graham Nash

#10. Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.

Charles Yu

#11. I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours!

Joanna Garcia

#12. I loved being governor. It was a blast. Eight years was enough. But it was certainly one of the greatest thrills in my life to be able to serve the people of Florida. I miss that from time to time.

Jeb Bush

#13. All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

Ferguson Jenkins

#14. I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brett Ratner

#15. Take more'n a key to get out of Central Prison. I could open all eight of these gates and wouldn't none of you maggots get halfway out. You'd need all these here. He patted the ring at his hip, making the keys hooked upon it jangle.

Mark Lawrence

#16. 'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

Sean Penn

#17. I was on HPD
Heathcliff Protection Duty
in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

Jasper Fforde

#18. After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Melanie Phillips

#19. Artists," he said, "are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

Ashton Kutcher

#21. My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

Billy Carter

#22. By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

Rachel Hunter

#23. Did you know that ninety-eight percent of statistics are made up on the spot?

Kim Harrington

#24. That was the problem with an eight-figure gorilla of a client. It took all of your time and attention. Old clients dried up and died away. New clients were not cultivated. His complacency had come back to bite him right in the ass. He

David Baldacci

#25. I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

Michael Biehn

#26. I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Hansen

#27. That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.

Lauren Bush

#28. I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

Lisa Whelchel

#29. I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don't want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That's just not me, that's not how my creativity flows.

Brooke Valentine

#30. I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#31. I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Emanuel Steward

#32. The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Aldous Huxley

#33. Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They sat talking through the long green afternoons - they talked of art, of literature, of life, of society and politics. They ate ice creams and squabs and drank good wines.

Ray Bradbury

#34. When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

Jon Fishman

#35. On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan's severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler.

Dan Chaon

#36. in Sante Fe time is not that shallow. There one can go deep into a continuity as the pueblos and the culture they represent take one back at least eight hundred years through a single Indian dance. For a European that continuity is life-giving.

May Sarton

#37. The horsemen came closer.
Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He didn't like the sensation of being looked at by nostrils.

Terry Pratchett

#38. There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Tom Brokaw

#39. Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

Amos Oz

#40. I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

Bill Hicks

#41. With his eyes squinted to slits, Donny reminds me of Clint Eastwood, if Clint Eastwood were eight inches shorter, thirty pounds heavier, less good-looking, with male-pattern baldness, and badly scarred.

Dean Koontz

#42. Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

Kyle Petty

#43. The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Peter Drucker

#44. ...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could.

Meg Wolitzer

#45. I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

Jennifer Aniston

#46. Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, "You know what? I'm going to take off eight months." What am I going to tell people? Wear last year's clothes?

Michael Kors

#47. Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

Warren Ellis

#48. I traced lazy shapes along her hip and waist. The figure eight made her shiver and wiggle closer, so it was my favorite.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#49. In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible ... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

Novak Djokovic

#50. Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Steve Buyer

#51. It was miraculous. Each day he faced was another dangerous mission against mortality. And he had been surviving them for twenty-eight years.

Joseph Heller

#52. Now, whatever you do, don't say anything, because no one must know that Liberace is gay."
"Excuse me?" I said. "I'm eight. I know he's gay.

Alison Arngrim

#53. If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Suze Orman

#54. Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.

Brandon Flowers

#55. I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.

Andrew Aydin

#56. People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working.

Bobby Lee

#57. My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

David Guetta

#58. The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

Bill Dedman

#59. If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

Tom Colicchio

#60. In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#61. My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Shaw

#62. I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Jeff Kinney

#63. I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

Shaquille O'Neal

#64. I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.

James L. Brooks

#65. Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.

Alfred Gough

#66. I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

Belinda Stewart-Wilson

#67. My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Dean Winters

#68. I prefer creatures with the proper amount of legs. Two or four are good. Six, eight, or none ... that's just not right.

Josh Lanyon

#69. Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

Yoko Ono

#70. Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.

Tina Fey

#71. I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.

Colin Powell

#72. Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going to bed and because that means that the day is officially over and she doesn't have to do anything more about it. About anything.

Ahdaf Soueif

#73. There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

#74. Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes.

Robert D. Sander

#75. In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

Patricia Mauceri

#76. When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Philip Emeagwali

#77. Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again?

Jennifer E. Smith

#78. President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

Jimmy Fallon

#79. Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.

David Letterman

#80. REX BRADEN AWOKE before dawn, just as he had every Sunday morning for the past twenty-six years - since the Sunday after his mother died, when he was eight years old. He didn't know what had startled him

Melissa Foster

#81. Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

Muhammad Ali

#82. I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.

Michael Spiller

#83. Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave

Jeaniene Frost

#84. I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.

Lorenz Hart

#85. There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

Jeff Kinney

#86. May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

Alastair Campbell

#87. A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#88. I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

Ed Speleers

#89. Well, good Christ, how was I supposed to know all that, Hannah? Who looks into the fine points when he's hungry? I'm eight years old and chocolate pudding happens to get me hot. All I have to do is see that deep chocolatey surface gleaming out at me from the refrigerator, and my life isn't my own.

Philip Roth

#90. I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

Timothy Leary

#91. I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

Stan Getz

#92. Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.

Mari Mancusi

#93. Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#94. Bronco Rick Perry is the first candidate I've ever heard say he's not doing well because he's sleepy. You know, we criticized George W. Bush a lot, but there was one thing he was very disciplined about, and that was getting his full eight years of sleep.

David Letterman

#95. They are surprisingly tall
eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight ...

Anne Enright

#96. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Orwell

#97. I don't like to rehearse. And I couldn't understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

Daniel Day-Lewis

#98. Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

Dave Attell

#99. I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

John James Audubon

#100. I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts ... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Bai Ling