Eight Quotes - Page 39

• Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
  If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
  A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
  Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!

  Ikkyu

  Beautiful, Strong, Night

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• The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Egypt

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• There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Block, Kids, Firsts

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• I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

  April Winchell

  Sleep, Night, Seven

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• I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

  Julie Delpy

  Years, Directors, Six Year Olds

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• I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

  Pierre Loti

  Memories, Years, Serious Illness

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• Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.

  Richard Louv

  Character, Average, Years

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

  Robert Orben

  Years, Trying, Alive

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• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  Taiye Selasi

  Writing, Ambition, Four

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• If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

  Art Buchwald

  President, Rosemary, Woods

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• You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Wall, Men, Needs

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• Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

  Zach Braff

  Real, Winning, Gold

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• I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky.

  Serge Savard

  Team, Player, Two

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• I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Country, Two, Leader

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• When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Morning, Humor

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• So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

  Billie Holiday

  Mom, Jobs, Believe

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Giving, Effort, Joy

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• Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Clouds, Views

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Taken, Sleep

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• I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When that happens, you definitely see God behind it. This year we've seen eight students make first-time decisions for Christ and when I see that, it's a great feeling. I'm really thankful that God is changing somebody, or sometimes he's changing me.

  Jeremy Lin

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Character, Years, Work Out

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• The sun truly "comes up like thunder," and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Sunset, Blue, Color

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• To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Government, People

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• When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Food, Cutting

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