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“You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)”

Country Week Seasons Eight Cooks Idols American Idol Helium

Author:Simon Cowell

“Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.”

Thinking Should Two Home Age Three Parent Loses Ten Raises Eight Ridiculous Uncomfortable Dragons Eggs Minors Librarian Being A Parent Diplomats Ark Rant

Book:DragonSpell: A Novel

Source: DragonSpell: A Novel

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

Wells Two Play Feelings Heaven Roles Broken Findings Train Legs Woods Eight Shoulders Bridges Fifty Virgins Nerd Johnson Broken Leg

Author:Junot Diaz

“Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.”

Ifs Knows Kids Courses Numbers Forever Mad Eight Silver Maidens Artemis Cabins Honorary

Book:The lightning thief

Source: The lightning thief

“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”

Heart Littles Different Missing Fool Kings Clubs Eight Nine Cards Diamond Outsiders Packs Spades Missing Him

Book:The Solitaire Mystery

Source: The Solitaire Mystery

“George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge”

Men Asks Half Company Feet Divine Quiet Built Letters Bills Heavy Eight Command Firm Wicked Tall Compliment Marvelous Virgins Other Half Quoting Smiley Stonehenge Old Letters

Author:John le Carre

“People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.”

People Years Long School Mother Father Poverty Fire Masters Terrible Hundred Eight Versions Compare Priests Bullying Wet Defeated Woe Terrible Things Pious Brag Pompous Moaning

Book:Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.”

Wanted Eight Badges

Book:Half Moon Investigations

Source: Half Moon Investigations

“Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face. "By S. Morgenstern. Great Florinese writer. The Princess Bride. He too came to America. S. Morgenstern. Dead now in New York. The English is his own. He spoke eight tongues." Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. "Eight. Once in Florin City...”

Book America Faces Reading Father Cities New York Fingers Eight Tongue Relax Spokes Princess Chapters Brides Princess Bride

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.”

People Whole Born Hours Sleep Pay Eight Whole Life Wire Covering

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.”

Ifs States Position Eight

Author:Seth Godin

“Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.”

World Needs Important Natural Economic Eight Natural World Premises Economic Systems

Book:Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization

Source: Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization

“A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”

Want Would Be Return Eight Favors Nine Sixty

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.”

Wells Long Hours Gone Week Minutes Thousand Ten Six Long Time Hundred Seven Eight Seconds Sixty Eighty Seven Days

Book:Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra

Source: Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra

“I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.”

Years Saws Dad Presses My Dad Eight Newspapers Journalist Rolling Printing Sydney Printing Press

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.”

Two Solutions Twenties Eight Abstract Dozen Hypothesis Equations Speculation Sixteen Axioms Theorems Twenty Two Limerick Bartimaeus Trilogy

Book:Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate

“Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.”

Said Two Three Five Four Six Seven Eight Tension Apprehension Dissension

Book:The Demolished Man

Source: The Demolished Man

“A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby”

Years Said Two Done Earth Hours Quality Minutes All Things Eight Thirty Two Years Length Sixteen Said And Done Shabby

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”

World Two Book Hours White Morning Magic Pages Blue Eight Circles Evening Another World Gateways Open Book Magic Hour

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.”

Ifs Reason Responsibility Calm Excited Eight Clock No Reason Stations Shocked

Book:The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.”

“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.”

Years Together Worst Twenties Eight Fats Drunk Thirty Horizon Allies Cliche Here I Am Unloved Looming Bridget Jones Ally Mcbeal

Book:Good Men: An eShort Story

Source: Good Men: An eShort Story

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog.”

World Writing Years Book Would Be Sound Water Progress Missing Cold Years Ago Eight Cups Tea Toes Blogs Blogging Vicissitudes American Gods Charting

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.”

“It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.”

Years Mean Remember Twenties Eight

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.”

Four Tables Eight Clock Policemen Alarms Hermits Alarm Clocks

Author:Groucho Marx

“Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.”

Knows Wells Suffering Voice Blue Phones Eight Bars Bob Cricket Dylan Mobile Choir Irritating Tangled Mobile Phones Helium Huffing

Book:The Stupidest Angel

Source: The Stupidest Angel

“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.”

Should Years Girl Kissing Fellows Eight Romantic Love Swear Kiss Me Kissing Him Kissing You Romantic Kiss Love Kiss Kissing Funny Romantic Kissing Kissing A Girl

Book:A Selection of Poems

Source: A Selection of Poems

“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.”

Knows Looks Long Two Novel Towns Rose My Favorite Eight Smell Bitter Expensive Chocolate Cake Dozen Apartment Two Days Good Long

Author:Robin McKinley

“To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book”

Book Half Eight Winner Thirty Quarters Sixteen Armenians

Author:William Saroyan

“When you're eight years old, nothing is any of your business.”

Years Eight

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.”

Asks Six Eight Inches

Book:Tales of the Madman Underground

Source: Tales of the Madman Underground

“(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.”

Thinking Knows Writing Years Ideas Seems Hours Eight No Idea Novelists Wiser Alcoholics Sobriety New Boyfriend

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

Water Lines Population Eight Iceberg Brave New World Brave New World Happiness Brave New World Freedom Optimum

Book:The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world

Source: The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world

“Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?”

Years Said Mother Promise Weight Eight Jane I Promise Anorexics

Book:Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

“A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?”

Should Past Prayer Half Eight Retiring Plates Stairs Cursed

Book:Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition

“I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.”

Years Long Running Beautiful Shots Eight Bones Wounds Guts Scar Running Away Survived Closing Lovely Bones Beautiful Sister

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”

Ifs Fighting Winning Left Thousand Eight Realms Opponents Fifty Pounds Combat Toms Cartoon Propositions Jerry Dubious Tom And Jerry

Book:Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.”

People Want Kind Break Dating Twenties Eight Psychotic

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.”

Running Past Waiting Hours Lines Steps Worst Car Bases Eight Enjoyed Forty Drivers Trapped Forty Eight

Book:Every Boy's Got One

Source: Every Boy's Got One

“There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.”

People Men Son Pages Eight

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.”

Feels Wells Pain Remember Hours News Eight Forty Hospitals Good News Emma No Pain Forty Eight Parsley

Author:Joss Whedon

“I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.”

Years Looks Running Left Wish Gone Cutting Hair Calling Ears Fingers Size Eight Skulls Curly Hair Dumbo

Book:What My Mother Doesn't Know

Source: What My Mother Doesn't Know

“Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.”

Ifs Men Believe Hands Age Fall Sleep Childhood Training Eight Tenacity

Author:Milan Kundera

“Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with all of you. It must have been truly frightening at least one week out of every month. (Valerius) Was that a joke? (Tabitha) Merely a frightening statement of fact. (Valerius)”

Has Beens Facts House Poor Week Months Jokes Males Eight Statements Frightening

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones”

Ifs Years Littles Girl Answers Liberty Asking Eight Over The Top Texan Salsa Jalapenos

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.”

Want Made Humor Funny Feet Agree Fishes Eight Eyebrows Tanks Dolphins Fish Tanks

Book:Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

Source: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

“The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.”

Stills Real School Together Next Felt Hours Morning Brother Eight Stuck My Brother

Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

“It’s a responsibility that I take most seriously, so excuse me for banning you from killing them because you have reverse PMS. (Acheron) Reverse PMS? (Artemis) Yeah, unlike a normal woman, you’re cranky twenty-eight days out of the month. (Acheron)”

Responsibility Months Normal Twenties Yeah Killing Excuse Eight Reverse Excuse Me Artemis Pms Cranky

Book:Devil May Cry

Source: Devil May Cry

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