Eighty Quotes
247 quotes by 219 authors
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It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid.…
— John Green
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A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs…
— Suzanne Collins
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I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force…
— Cassandra Clare
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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
— Lysander Spooner
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,…
— Jack London
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Mrs. Zuppa was coming in from bingo just as I was leaving the building. "Looks like you're going to work," she said, leaning heavily on…
— Janet Evanovich
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Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle…
— Ally Carter
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There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to…
— Glen Duncan
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The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if…
— Thomas Bernhard
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I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.
— Stephenie Meyer
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would…
— Bill Hicks
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as…
— Pablo Casals
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If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will…
— Anne Lamott
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You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had…
— Darynda Jones
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Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn —…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty,…
— Rick Riordan
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Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.
— John Green
Who Wrote These Eighty Quotes
219 authors contributed a total of 247 Eighty Quotes, led by these top contributors: