Eight Quotes

I can play all I know in eight bars.

— Charlie Parker

Men are creatures with eight hands.

— Jayne Mansfield

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

— Claire Cook

I've had malaria damn near eight times.

— Israel Adesanya

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

— Margi Preus

It's tiring doing eight shows a week.

— Paul Whitehouse

I lived in the D.C. area for eight years.

— Becky Albertalli

Eight is my lucky number.

— Jesse Spencer

I usually sleep ten to eight hours per night. I sometimes also have a nap in the afternoon.

— Romain Grosjean

When I first moved to Paris, I worked as an au pair for two girls aged eight and 11.

— Rachel Khoo

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

— Peter Frampton

From when I was 18 I had an eight-album plan and I think I would love to make eight albums.

— Becky Hill

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

— Moliere

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

— Ravi Subramanian

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

— Laozi

If I wake up after eight hours it's right; after nine I'm groggy.

— Mathew Horne

I tried bull-riding... I wasn't good at all: I don't think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I…

— Wes Studi

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old,…

— Ellen Pompeo

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was…

— Dianna Agron

I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

— Sophie Dahl

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years…

— Peter Drucker

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight…

— Amy Tan

The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all…

— Chris Paul

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.…

— Bob Uecker

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked…

— Clint Walker

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Regarding love what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other…

— Woody Allen

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown…

— Ally Carter

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It's…

— Harvey Fierstein

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because…

— Ludivine Sagnier

It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center…

— Al Sharpton

I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and…

— Martin Niemoller

Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed…

— Rush Limbaugh

If we're going to change the game it has to start at eight, nine and 10 years old. When we were that…

— Wayne Gretzky

I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers,…

— Daniel Handler

Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive…

— Richard Garriott

I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were…

— MC Hammer

The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight…

— Devra Davis