Eight Quotes
1417 Eight quotes by 1187 unique authors
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing…
— Harlan Coben
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
— Eric Alterman
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with…
— Ian Anderson
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I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!
— Jennifer Aniston
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My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother…
— Stephen King
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This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people…
— Jeff Sessions
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We…
— Robert Crippen
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
— Sue Grafton
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The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
— Jerry Tarkanian
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You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong…
— Michael Jordan
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In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
— Joe Montana
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Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.
— Robert Breault
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If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.
— Teemu Selanne
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A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of…
— Unknown Author
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I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.
— August Spies
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You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
— Zoe Saldana
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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
— Maimonides
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Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
— Joe Biden
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And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up…
— Julius Erving
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He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're…
— Scottie Pippen
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The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
— Dave Barry
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We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you…
— Jim Valvano
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