Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabrielle Zevin

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

Frank Langella

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Karl Lagerfeld

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Kami Garcia

I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

Maggie Stiefvater

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Mackenzie Foy

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

John Barnes

Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

Meg Cabot

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. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

I'm not really sure what the market is showing us here, ... Seven hundred and eighty million shares: That's not a lot.

Roy Acuff

Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.

Carmelo Anthony

I'm not going to sit out. We've only got eight people as it is.

We've never had this few players playing this many minutes for this long. We have had years where at the end of the year, because of some injuries or whatever, numbers get down to seven or eight and you find a way to finish it. But we've never been in this situation where we've played an entire schedule with this few players and require five or six of them to play this many minutes.

Those two have done great for us all four years --and we've got a good group around them. We have eight seniors. That always helps. They're looking forward to a good season. This is a good group to work with.

This team had between four and seven runs and between eight and 12 hits every game in spring training. I'm sure they will come around.

This was a fluke. We're going to come out and have great games every week for the next eight games.

Brian Urlacher

They kept a lot of guys in and only had two or three out on the routes. We thought we would get pressure with four, and they kept seven or eight in to block.

They lived with me for seven, maybe eight months, but as soon as Monica was able to find work and save some money, she rented a place of her own and gained her independence.

There's the realization that there's real inflation in the U.S., and not just the kind of head-in-the-sand inflation we've seen the past six to eight months.

Jenna Fischer

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Russia had an industrial proletariat of some seven or eight millions. The number of poor peasants, however, amounted to about 25 millions.

Paul Allen

In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

Pam Gems

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Judd Apatow

A lot of times, it's easy to trim the movie 'cause you just start losing things that you thought would be there just for amusement's sake that actually are not funny. My favorite part of the process is seeing it with an audience. I do about eight previews to see how things are working.

R. Kelly

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

Nhat Hanh

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

Joe Scarborough

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

Jodi Picoult

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Kinky Friedman

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

Kid Cudi

And I try to piece the puzzle of the universe, Split an eight of shrooms just so I could see the universe !

Margaret Thatcher

As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

Mark Twain

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

Mark Twain

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

John Green

That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.