Eight Quotes · Page 49

I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well,…

— Ricky Jay

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times…

— Alex Tabarrok

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

— Rod Carew

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality,…

— Anton Chekhov

Before I got to Juilliard I remember that I had learned the first few bars to all the Sachse etudes in several…

— Neil Balme

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight…

— Michael Spiller

When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time…

— Rudy Giuliani

The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours…

— Erma Bombeck

You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had…

— Michele Bachmann

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making…

— McKayla Maroney

I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half…

— Joe Pass

You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force…

— Julia Quinn

It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way…

— Chandler Parsons

We're doing all the shows as an eight-piece band. There's so many different kinds of palettes for each film that we've had…

— Stuart A. Staples

There were eight women in my graduating class.

— Judith Love Cohen

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children…

— Toni Morrison

I started making videos when I was, like, seven or eight.

— Shane Dawson

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really…

— Ezra Miller

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

— Jon Gordon

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of…

— Bertrand Russell

We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

— Josh Silver

As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good…

— Cassandra Danz

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then…

— Jeff Kinney

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.

— Bruce Robinson

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

— Guy Sebastian