Quotes of: Eighty Keyword

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mark Twain

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Lord Byron

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

Brad Holland

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Serge Lang

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Wyler

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

John Corigliano

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

Donatella Versace

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Bill Vaughan

Rita: Three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents!

Groundhog Day

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so fo...

The Haunting of Hill House

Back in the "leather and lace" eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was a great time to be young and footloose on the streets of Manhattan—punk rock and folk music were everywhere; Blondie, the Eurythmics...

Welcome to Bordertown

Charlie: What was it we cleared, eight-six thousand and change? Raymond: Eighty-six thousand, five hundred... Charlie: So, eighty thousand to pay the cars off. What did I say I had to pay to get the Rolex out of hock? Raymond: Thirty-five hundred dol...

Rain Man

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

Rowan Atkinson

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Russell Banks

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Kirk Hammett

My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.

Liberty Ross

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Henny Youngman

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Ben Hogan

The mind always found its way back to baseline.

Love Minus Eighty

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Billy Barty