Eight Quotes - Page 50

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.