Eight Quotes

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant. (Henry Miller)
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. View quote
Lily Tomlin
No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. View quote
Harriet Tubman
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. View quote
Bill Shankly
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. View quote
Robert Browning
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. View quote
Terry Pratchett
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. View quote
Robert Frost
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. View quote
John Cage
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. View quote
Stephen Fry
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. (Willie Nelson)
I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. View quote
Fred Thompson
The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. View quote
Alice Cooper
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. View quote
Jonathan Swift
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. View quote
Lenny Bruce
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. View quote
Charles Bukowski
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. View quote
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. View quote
Bill Cosby
Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. (John McGahern)
The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned. View quote
Fred F. Fielding
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people. View quote
Laurel Clark
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. View quote
Nick Faldo
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. View quote
Philip Emeagwali
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