Eight Quotes - Page 45

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .

Plain free-weight squats work better for me than anything.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

The switch from ten-cylinder to eight-cylinder engines means that each manufacturer has to redevelop its power train. Not all will manage to successfully combine performance with reliability the first time around. That could shake things up a bit when it comes team hierarchy.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.