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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.
Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.
I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.
I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.
Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?
Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It's normalized. And it's an abuse of power.
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.
[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land With a wig, yeah. And some crisps.
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.
My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.
Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.
You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.
If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
I don't remember taking pictures with eighty percent of the people that I have taken pictures with.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That's the goal I'm shooting for. When they revive 'Driving Miss Daisy' for the seven-hundredth time.
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
