#eight

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write. ↗

— George Lopez

#beach #day #desk #eight #grandmother

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. ↗

— John Major

#community #european #i #punch #want

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. ↗

— John Malkovich

#around #direct #eight #goof #i

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio. ↗

— Jim Messina

#eight #hall #hours #lot #recording

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#bring #came #captain #clarke #clock

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#beginning #champion #complete #could #heavyweight