#eight

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#carry #feels #fun #i #know

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#average #believe #customers #doing #eighty

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#after #bars #eight #hearing #just

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#challenge #constantly #feel #focused #greater

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame. ↗

— Koo Stark

#because #did #difficult #expect #fame

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#diagram #each #eight #first #having

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#contain #death #eighty #every #grief

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#borrow #hard #i #later #light

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#carried #great #nations #own #peace

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#born #days #did #eight #engagement