Eighty Quote by Alan Bennett Download Open image “At eighty things do not occur; they recur.” — Alan Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eighty
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“We almost always can point to that hundredth blow, but we don't always mark the ninety-nine other things that happen before we change.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. — William Feather Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“BURGESS How do you like Moscow? CORAL Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives the play… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. — Jake Simmons, Jr Copy Share Image
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want?… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
