Quotes of: Eighty Keyword

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

Capital

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Around the World in Eighty Days

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

Around the World in Eighty Days

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

Around the World in Eighty Days

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

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Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Mrs. Lancaster: [on the second day] Will you be checking out today, Mr. Connors? Phil: [hesitantly] Change of departure today:... Eighty percent?... seventy-five/eighty?

Groundhog Day

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.

Around the World in Eighty Days

At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.

Spanish

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized tea...

Bill Simmons

We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.

Radiant

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

Melissa Marr