Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sykes

This is my eighth hurricane, but I've never understood the force of water until I saw this on Sunday. The storm surge was like Sherman going through Georgia.

Richard Thompson

This is a global problem. Eight million tons of litter enter the oceans every day -- most is plastic.

Sean Penn

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

A Gore administration would be a continuation of the last eight years

A handful (of the blades) -- I don't have an exact number -- got installed in eight engines and those were very quickly identified.

Freddie Roach

And Manny was supposed to have a big suite, but Murad took the big suite for himself and put Manny in a one-bedroom suite that Manny had to share with eight other people. And he didn't get his tickets (for family and friends) for the fight.

And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.

All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.

The last time we played in Japan, I had eight match points and I lost. So I knew it was going to be a tough match. When he has a tough situation, he always plays really good.

The last two years we have been a real young team. Last year we started seven or eight sophomores, but this year the girls are maturing and getting stronger and learning the system a little better.

Alexei Yashin

The last seven to eight minutes we played in their zone.

Scott Bakula

The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.

Novak Djokovic

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

Norton Juster

Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.

Emily Browning

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

Tina Yothers

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Lenny Bruce

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Lena Headey

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

Placido Domingo

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

Emmy Rossum

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Henry A. Kissinger

Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier.

Jose Mujica

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

Joni Mitchell

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

Jonathan Stroud

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

The key for me to actually getting a win was getting out of that eighth inning. We did a good job of using all 27 of our outs this game.

John Olver

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

Shia LaBeouf

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

The first half really hurt us. Eight points in a half, it's hard to win a game. I have to give our kids a lot of credit, though. They really battled hard.

Jonathan Krohn

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

Jonathan Krohn

I got into politics when I was eight years old. Six years now. And I got involved because I started listening to talk radio. It goes back to one event. The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules,

Jonathan Frid

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

Jon Stewart

I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.