Eighty Quotes - Page 16

• My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

  Meg Whitman

  Thinking, Views, Matter

  "Meg Whitman's Exit Interview". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

  Will Self

  Seventies, Ifs

  Will Self (2012). “How the Dead Live”, p.318, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

  Edward Abbey

  Aunt, Giving, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sight, Years, Imagination

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• Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and use our human abilities. . . . In sum, our development does not necessarily end at any age. We can continue to develop into our eighties, even to our nineties.

  Betty Friedan

  Childhood, Challenges, Age

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• I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

  Voltaire

  Men, Years, Sorrow

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• The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Believe, People

  "Town of Beaufort changed Tony Abbott's view on climate change" by Stuart Rintoul, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 12, 2009.

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• Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Responsibility, Ozone, Effort

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

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• Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

  Salvador Dali

  People, Age, Too Much

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• I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

  Sarah Kane

  Tired, Years, Mind

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.211, A&C Black

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• Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Animal, Years

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.

  Charles Busch

  Writing, Work Out, Scary

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• Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.

  Albert Speer

  Country, Mean, Independent

  "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.

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• A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

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• If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Writing, Player

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• However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.

  Matthew Arnold

  England, Newspapers, Persons

  Matthew Arnold (1912). “Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold”

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• You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Iraq, Defeat

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.78, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

  Kim Wilde

  Mean, Blonde, Vulnerability

  Clothes Show magazine, March 1989.

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• Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

  Lee Iacocca

  Fun, Mean, Responsibility

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• Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Winter, Men, Vanity

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.184

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• You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.

  George Carlin

  Years, Magic, Six

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• Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.

  Milton Berle

  Sex, Winter, Four

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• To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

  Jan Struther

  Life, Time, Years

  Jan Struther (1946). “A Pocket Full of Pebbles”

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• By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

  Dave Barry

  Rocks, Upset, Radio

  Dave Barry (1991). “Turning 40”, Vintage

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