Eight Quotes · Page 17

A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice.…

— Michael J. Sullivan

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play…

— Tennessee Williams

The most beautiful thing that I learned, I learned from my kids. They were eight and ten - and they were playing…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The Replacements definitely changed my life, I think they're just amazing. The thing that blew me away [a band like that] is…

— Ryan Jarman

There was this point about, you know, the basic point there as well - this statute treats some parts of the country…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all…

— Nikki Blonsky

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

— Romain Grosjean

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd…

— Robbie Williams

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the…

— William Nicholson

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work…

— Aminatta Forna

I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.

— Sam Smith

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

— Aldous Huxley

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it…

— Madeleine Albright

At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of…

— F. Sionil Jose

These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The…

— Barack Obama

I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local…

— Roy Orbison

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit,…

— Helen Hunt

Don't bring your sand toys to the park. That's another bad move. Because I go to the park, and I'm on the…

— Al Madrigal

There's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, and Ratatouille. It's super surreal. We've been working on this for eight…

— Evan Goldberg

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

— Harry S Truman

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to…

— Drew Bledsoe

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would…

— Ian Holloway

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

— Pete Seeger

I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut…

— Randall Robinson