Top 382 Eighty Quotes & Sayings

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

Mum said earlier what a lovely dress you’re wearing.” Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.” It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman. “I think you’ve really grown into it,” Valkyrie said. “I always thought it was a little shapeless.” Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

Eighty dollars for a T-shirt - that's how you know the brand is good.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

Life begins at eighty.

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.

I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at a hundred and eighty-two. I'd get up to maybe 188 in the off-season because every summer I'd lose eight to ten pounds.

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Eighty percent of love is smell.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Eighty-two games, it's a long season.

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

In a dream you are never eighty.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.