Eight Quotes - Page 6

• It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

  Hortense Odlum

  Jobs, Men, Joy

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• How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

  Studs Terkel

  Work, Fighting, Grandparent

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

  Paul Lynde

  Small Numbers, House, Guests

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• For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

  Jessica Savitch

  Hard Work, Two, Style

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.

  Lil' Kim

  Sex, Gambling, Months

  "Interview: the wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Support, Charity, Levels

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• You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

  Jo Stafford

  Unique, Bars, Hearing

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• The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Years, Lasts, Revolutionary

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

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• I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

  Ned Beatty

  Children, Blessed, Talking

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• Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

  Elayne Boosler

  Funny, Witty, Women

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• I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

  Nicolas Cage

  Doctors, Blood, Hands

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• 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.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Morning, Memories

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

  LL Cool J

  Summer, Home, Trying

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• I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

  Sidney Poitier

  Player, Demand, Scripts

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• I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Movie, Witty

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• My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Eye, Baby Girl

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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• It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, Work, Men

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• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Cutting, Two

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• I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Athlete, Years

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• In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

  Piper Perabo

  Weather, Different, Wales

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• The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Memories, Years, Age

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Mother, Sex, Convinced

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• I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Writing, Years, Stills

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