Eight Quotes
1417 quotes by 1187 authors
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It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.
— Sophie Kinsella
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Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.
— Groucho Marx
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Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies,…
— Christopher Moore
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So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread…
— Robin McKinley
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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
— William Saroyan
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Can I ask you something personal?†Six inches but I tell everyone eight.
— John Barnes
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(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to…
— Augusten Burroughs
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
— Aldous Huxley
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Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?
— James Patterson
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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now,…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who…
— Alice Sebold
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If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by…
— Jim Butcher
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Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst…
— Meg Cabot
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The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
— Hanif Kureishi
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There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's…
— Terry Pratchett
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Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And…
— Joss Whedon
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I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him…
— Sonya Sones
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Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand…
— Milan Kundera
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Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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