Eight Quotes - Page 19

At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

It was a crazy game. We could have scored five...oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even when they have lost all other meaning and purpose. People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands it be that way. There's no villian, no 'mean guy' who wants them to live meaningless lives, it's just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.

Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before.

I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.