Eighth Quotes
142 Eighth quotes by 125 unique authors
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At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by…
— Chelsea Clinton
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You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
— Scott Lynch
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I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I…
— Channing Tatum
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To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.
— Brendan Gill
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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
— Gustav Mahler
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears…
— Louise Penny
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I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
— Thomas Perry
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to…
— Dan Quisenberry
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A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's…
— Frederick Lenz
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I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's…
— Stellan Skarsgard
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I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
— Dontrelle Willis
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Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are…
— Frederick Lenz
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It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at…
— Alison McGhee
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as…
— Olivia Williams
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But when Gronk scores – it was like his eighth touchdown of the year – he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball. I…
— Tom Brady
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
— Albert Einstein
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Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to…
— Aleksandr Karelin
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The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth…
— Brian J. White
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My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.
— Gordon Bell
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears…
— Philip Johnson
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I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some…
— Ron Perlman
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My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She…
— Rick Riordan
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Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This…
— Jonathan Sacks
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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was…
— Jill Scott
Who Wrote These Eighth Quotes
125 authors contributed a total of 142 Eighth Quotes, led by these top contributors: