Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eighteen months ago, seven times out of 10, the short list for these large Unix environments was typically between HP and Sun. In the last six months, that has dramatically shifted to putting IBM much more frequently on that short list.

Eighteen innings, to get eight hits. You're not going to win a lot of games.

Paul McGinley

Everyone expected us to win and they had nothing to lose. They played really well. We were seven or eight under par but still lost.

Back in May we were worried. We thought we'd be lucky to win eight or nine games.

Chandler Massey

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

That this team was one win away from the final eight is just unbelievable. I'm as proud of this team as any I've ever coached.

That's what Mark does. He hustles on every play and gets lost in the mix until he does something like score eight points in a row. That was big for us.

That's nice. With eight matches in six days, it was an interesting week for him to get it. He won all of the matches we needed him to win.

That shot at the end of the half was huge. It took the lead from five points to eight and we never recovered. It (a slow tempo) was pretty successful, but when you get down by more than five, it gets tough.

That one where five roads come together (North Eighth and E streets), to me, that's the worst, But you never know who gets to go next.

Bob Hill

That one was tough. We got plenty of shots at the basket, we win the boards, we shoot 44 percent from three, we had 25 assists and only eight turnovers, and we couldn't keep them off the foul line.

Bill White

Between the local people and the top seem to be about seven or eight layers of people who need to get a life,

Between six and eight weeks, there's big growth.

Frank Robinson

Big home run. Big, big, big home run in the eighth inning. The other two were big, too.

Every person in our rotation of eight did their part. And we played a great game defensively. That was a big factor.

It's not uncommon through a normal year to lose a plane. John Q Public needs to understand that we do have accidents. It's usually in the first eight minutes up and in the last eight minutes down.

It's one of those things. I'll roll with it. ... They'll put the pins in and (in) six to eight weeks I should be back playing.

It's the first year I've had a grade issue, period. We started with eight in trouble.

It's always been our position if it takes you eight hours to walk out of a mine, then there ought to be eight hours of oxygen for you to do that.

Jennifer Carpenter

When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.

Jeff Sessions

[Ronald Reagan] appealed to that group of [working American] people and we can do it again, because they've had, now, eight years of [Barak] Obama. Things have not gone well.

Jennifer O'Neill

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Jackson Browne

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Gary Vaynerchuk

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

Gareth Gates

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Jennifer Weiner

So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...

Jasper Fforde

Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

Jasper Fforde

You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

Eugene Jarecki

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

Groucho Marx

That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

Groucho Marx

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

Haley Reinhart

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.