Eighty Quotes
247 quotes by 223 authors
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At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.
— Milton Berle
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In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are…
— Nicholas Ray
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Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved…
— Polycarp
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I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
— Jeanne Moreau
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We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in…
— Jessica Zafra
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Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
— Robert Johnson
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Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
— Jay Samit
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no…
— Nikola Tesla
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Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the…
— Bob Hope
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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock,…
— Olive Schreiner
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
— George Wein
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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard…
— John Lanchester
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Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts?…
— W. Edwards Deming
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After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
— David Ben-Gurion
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Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change…
— W. Edwards Deming
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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just…
— Jules Verne
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One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of…
— William Segal
Who Wrote These Eighty Quotes
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