Eight Quotes · Page 6

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Bill Hicks

I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

— Tom Sturridge

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

— Melinda Gates

I realised I owned eight pink suits, which I did not need.

— A. J. Odudu

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

— Julie Andrews

With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

— Jimmy Armfield

I have had a problem with food intolerance since I was eight.

— Rachel Riley

I was seven and a half, nearly eight when I arrived. I was always a Porto fan, so they were 12 extremely…

— Ruben Neves

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after…

— Andy Borowitz

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

— Bryan Ferry

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

— Katharine Graham

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a…

— Jodi Picoult

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need…

— Ben Fountain

I have been involved in this sport since I was eight years old, so, hopefully, I can train and coach athletes down…

— Michael Bisping

Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on…

— Wendy C. Ortiz

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

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make…

— Helen Mirren

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a…

— Richard Dawkins

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago…

— Willem Dafoe

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling…

— Eminem

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night…

— Alice Oswald

It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads…

— Deborah Copaken

The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth.…

— Zig Ziglar

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,…

— Nhat Hanh

I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it…

— Sylvester Stallone

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that…

— John Steinbeck

So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part…

— Billie Holiday

I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent…

— Kerry Kennedy

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph…

— Herbert Hoover

I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school.…

— Zooey Deschanel

I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.

— Jessica Rothe

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

— Ned Beatty

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

— John B. S. Haldane

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

— Alan Keyes

Nothing can prep you for eight years of sex scenes in one day.

— Morena Baccarin

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

— Sebastian Junger

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

— Alexander Alekhine

I eat seven, if not eight, times a day. Every two hours, I'm usually eating.

— Phil Heath