Eight Quotes - Page 58

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

A new study found that women gain more weight after marriage, but men gain more weight after a divorce. Yeah, the divorce usually takes place after men point out that women gained more weight after marriage.

I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

Guys are really easy to get along with. It's a lot better than being on the bus with eight girls. But the worst part is being the only girl, because there's some days where you just wanna watch a chick flick.

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.