Eight Quotes - Page 35

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

Now I am going to speak a word and this is the word and here's the word. When the clock strikes 2.08. There are eight songs in the Bible. Noah started the world over with eight people. On the eighth day the Bible says Jesus appeared. Thomas because was not a believer but on the eighth day he showed up and Thomas was a believer. Actually Jesus was resurrected on the eighth day.

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

That's about the 1000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.