Eight Quotes · Page 75

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

— G. N. Devy

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I…

— Taylor Lautner

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

— Carol Burnett

I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.

— Cindy Sheehan

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not…

— James A. Michener

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the…

— Bill McKibben

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

— Conan O'Brien

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained…

— Diane Wilson

I think if you come from where I came from and where I have always been, I've always been reaching out and…

— Hillary Clinton

We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the…

— Jim Valvano

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

When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their…

— Michelle Obama

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all…

— Robin McKinley

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My…

— Juan Manuel Marquez

“Okay, I think it's time for another distraction" Eight says, disappearing again. He reappears by the outer circle of stones, plants his…

— Pittacus Lore

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

— Don McLean

If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a…

— Zooey Deschanel

I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have…

— Freddie Roach

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and…

— Mac Davis

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

— Harry Redknapp

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

— Boyd Holbrook

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours…

— Rachael Ray

For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your…

— Barack Obama

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it…

— Jessica Brown Findlay