Eight Quotes · Page 73

I've always targeted that number eight spot.

— Stuart Broad

“The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.”

— Steven Wright

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it…

— Lord Chesterfield

For eight years, all I cared about was track.

— Michelle Wolf

Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight…

— Richard Simmons

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

— Steven Knight

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

— Pam Gems

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

— Eric Whitacre

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of…

— Tamer Hassan

President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United…

— Louis Farrakhan

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to…

— Patricia Highsmith

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that.…

— Edward Snowden

Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from…

— Michael Moore

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility.…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine…

— Calvin Trillin

When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought…

— Jonny Bairstow

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million…

— Richard Jeni

There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

— Jose Mourinho

Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were…

— Jasper Fforde

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the…

— Diane Setterfield

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

— Fernando Alonso

I've been here for eight years and I'm going into my 13th season. There's nothing I'd have liked better than to retire…

— Kevin Mawae

Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning…

— Jeaniene Frost