Eight Quotes - Page 18

I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.

The weight of your body is controlled by the image in your mind.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.

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

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.