Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

Alan Kay

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

Alan Keyes

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Walliams

I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

We spent the first six to eight months of the SOX project figuring out how we were going to do this.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis von Ahn

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Libby Trickett

I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.

Louis C. K.

You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.

Kurt Vonnegut

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

There is no place like home. The kids really needed it. When a visiting team comes to our place it's six or eight shots in our favor.

Eric Chavez

We've always had good (closers) in the ninth inning. But the seventh and eighth has been a real strength for us this year.

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

Red Schoendienst

When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts, we're going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we've got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed in the playoffs. We don't want to settle for the eighth spot. We want to try and get as high as we can.

Chris Quinn

When we have those eight guys playing their roles, we can be a great team.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

With traffic, it took them eight hours to reach Jackson,

We're still interested in the eight remaining properties.

We're right there. What we have to do is give eight more minutes.

We've got eight winnable games to go and we've got the right teams to play in the right places.

We've got eight games left over three weeks, so I'm not too concerned. He'll tell me if he's tired, and I'll gauge accordingly. We're still not in (the playoffs). For me to take my foot off the pedal wouldn't be fair to anybody.

Benjamin Millepied

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

Bob Uecker

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

We were hoping to go under eight minutes. Our leadoff leg went 2:04 today; he's usually more of a two-flat, and our second guy, he went 2:06, and he's usually more of a 2:02. Right there that's six seconds that could have put us back in the mix, but when you get out there just never know what's going to happen.