Eighty Quotes

247 quotes by 223 authors

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of… — Terry Pratchett
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think… — Marisha Pessl
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took… — Steven Wright
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between… — David Sedaris
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours.… — Meg Cabot
It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with… — Mary Roach
Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The… — Kim Harrison
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a… — Michael Crichton
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much… — Anthony Kiedis
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. — Emily Bronte
The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government,… — Francis Schaeffer
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think… — Muriel Barbery
See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten."… — William Goldman
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the… — Stephen King
After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. â€œDid anyone else noticeâ€”â€ â€œYes,â€ Catherine said. â€œWhat do you make of it?â€ â€œI havenâ€™t… — Lisa Kleypas
Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in… — Eoin Colfer

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