It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
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.
Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.
I'm a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs - and everyone does - you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.
Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though,- those'll fool 'em. I supposed I hoped the European locals' conversation would go something like this: PIERRE: Ha! Look at ...
Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.' Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you'...
My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford...
He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.
While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.
They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.
Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.