Famous Quotes & Sayings

I did it from kindergarten through eighth grade. I twirled and I danced.

If only we had been lucky and won two out of those eight losses, we could have been in the top four. Now, we're just making the most out of what we have. It's a long shot, but my players still have pride in themselves.

I have been working on that for eight years and running it hard for the last two. So, yes, I'm elated.

Channing Frye

I'd love to win about eight in a row now.

Scott Young

I'd like to say we can pound it on North Iredell, but they like to put eight or nine men up there, and they're real tough to run on. We've got to be able to throw it some.

Marie Windsor

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Michael Graves

We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.

Bruce Babbitt

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

Elijah Wood

I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.

We have a situation where we try to look at practice times that might fit for guys, who might have an hour on Tuesday or an hour on Wednesday. In that hour we may only get six or seven or eight guys.

Conan O'Brien

Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

Beth Daniel

We're just excited being tied going into singles. The last three we've been so far down. We've got to win the majority of singles matches, but that's better than having to win eight of 12.

Francesca Annis

In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.

David Attenborough

One in eight plant species face extinction.

Doug Scott

Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.

Cristela Alonzo

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

Crispin Glover

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

Dustin Hoffman

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

Chuck Klosterman

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

Ansel Adams

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

Amy Grant

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

The exhaust from gas furnaces can be run through an exhaust flue that can be as narrow as eight inches in diameter.

What I tried to tell the kids is one game doesn't make a season. Eighteen wins, that's something to be proud of.

Don Henley

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Dev Patel

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

Dave Winfield

Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

David Levithan

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

Alphonsus Liguori

In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.

Just look at the roster. We had 11 players score and five with eight or more points, and a different player again, led the scoring.

Kari has done such a tremendous job for me. She has been here eight years and quietly gone about taking on a whole lot of responsibilities. She has been a very good and loyal coach. She needed to be rewarded. Now is the perfect time.

I think it's about 3,300 yards, and he's already got, I think, 2,000, so he's got eight games to get 1,300 yards, which isn't out of the realm of possibility for him.