#eight

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years. ↗

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#anorexic #bad #cent #dangerous #england

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

#chemical #constitution #dealing #determined #difficulty

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#heights #international #literature #make #rises

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#luck #percent #probably #skill #twenty

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#best #focusing #hitting #hours #lifting

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight. ↗