Eight Quotes
1417 Eight quotes by 1187 unique authors
-
I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid…
— Sarah MacLean
-
Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in…
— Jenna Black
-
Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene,…
— John L. Parker Jr.
-
Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.
— Stephen King
-
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries…
— Robert A. Heinlein
-
Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like…
— John Green
-
Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.
— Jonathan Stroud
-
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
— Libba Bray
-
Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
— David Sedaris
-
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want…
— David Nicholls
-
Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you…
— Sarah MacLean
-
You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And…
— Jasper Fforde
-
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able…
— Jasper Fforde
-
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de…
— Mark Twain
-
You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't…
— Hillary Jordan
-
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always…
— John Knowles
-
People always stay the age that they died at. My big brother died of leukemia when I was six. He was eight. Now when I…
— Christopher Moore
-
And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in…
— Dorothy Dunnett
-
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
— Charlotte Bronte
-
He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.
— Anna Gavalda
-
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
— Dr. Seuss
-
The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of…
— Rick Riordan
-
A good conscience is eight parts of courage.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
-
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Eight Quotes
1,187 authors contributed a total of 1,417 Eight Quotes, led by these top contributors: