Quotessence
Home / Topics / Eighty Quotes

Eighty Quotes

Browse 434 quotes about Eighty.

Related topics

YearsPercentPeopleIfsSeventiesAgeMenThinkingKnowsWayFiveTwentiesWorldHundredLooksNinetyTwoSixtyWellsThreeWantYoungCountryFeelsLongMadeFourHas BeensLateAgingCentsDiesEndsFilmFirstsKindStillsWritingFactsLittlesMiddleMinutesNineSaidAmericaBigsBornCan DoFortyGivingJobsKidsMeanNeedsShouldTenBelieveBookDifferentFunGuyHardHeartHoursI CanLastsMillionsPersonsStatesWholeYouthCareChildrenFiftyFunnyHairHappensMayMotherRocksSevenShowsSixThirtyThousandWarWould BeYears Ago

Eighty Quotes

“At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.”

PlayDifferencesAbilityWorryRiskWorstPositionDemandShotsGolfBrilliantTendenciesIronRoughPlusJailTomsSeventiesDisturbingEightyStrategicWatsonCrispsHigh Risk
Author:Thomas Boswell
Create image

“Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.”

MenYearsSelfGovernmentRunningTogetherReligiousPrinciplesEqualYears AgoOppositesSacredDespiseCan NotDeclarationEightyDeclaringSelf-government
Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln
Create image

“We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?”

WantShouldYearsKindHardDiesCausesCitiesLibertyMillionsStreetsCarMassHundredSittingYears AgoWindowHorseTrainCancerOilLibertarianNineLibertarianismPollutionReplacedEightyFeverTransportationMcdonaldsAnklesSpeedingCity StreetsOld CarTyphoid
Author:P. J. O'Rourke
Create image

“I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.”

KnowsTryingWellsLittlesI CanScienceAnswersEffortStudyFourMinutesTalentFiguresMathematicsSevenNineManageAccomplishmentAccomplishedGet AwayStatisticsUncertainDeep ThoughtEightyHesitationRuggedMultiplication
Author:Mark Twain
Create image

“Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.”

YearsMatterSpiritSpeakExistenceSilenceQualityMeditationBirthEternityMereQuantitySeventiesEightyTranscendentBirth And DeathMeditation LifeQuantity And Quality
Author:Sri Chinmoy
Create image

“And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.”

PeopleMenWorldPersonsWholeEyeUsedEnergyLeftPoorRichTakenFiveFourMeditationSeeingMajorsPercentTwentiesBlindEastSavedSensesCentsPoor PeopleEightyInner WorldFive Senses
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.”

MenWantMadeAgeForgetRoomsCareersSawsFourPicksGreenLeavingPhonesI RealizedSellingNever ForgetEightyVelvetDaveBuyersSlippers
Book:Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge
Create image

“I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.”

MenWritingHas BeensReasonStoriesMightJobsDesireNightBornFiveTreeAdventureBearsReaderAncientPassionateCommunicateObligationTalesSatApplesFortyOrganizeStorytellerHuntersImaginativeEightyCampfireProwessApple TreesRecitationPassionate Desire
Book:The World Is My Home: A Memoir
Create image

“I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.”

KnowsShouldYearsMindLittlesBitsLittle BitResearchAlcoholDecadesEaseIllegalMarijuanaCourtesyEightyCocaineArthritis
Author:James Garner
Create image

“Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.”

PeopleIfsWholeCareLosesSecurityTearsWallArmyBoundsEastNostalgiaHealth CareGermanyCoveredShedOrchestraHousingEightySymphonyBlanketBerlinDemiseSubsidiesBerlin WallEast GermanySymphony OrchestrasDay Care
Author:Bob Simon
Create image

“In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as separate. Economy was producing wealth, society was spending. In the 21st century economy, this is not true anymore. Sectors like health, social services and education have a tendency to grow, in GDP percentage as well as in creating employment, whereas other industries are decreasing. In the long term, an innovation in social services or education will be as important as an innovation in the pharmaceutical or aerospatial industry.”

WellsLongImportantSocialGrowsTermWealthEconomyIssuesEconomicCenturyIndustryCreatingInnovationFocusedSpendingTendenciesEmploymentLong TermEnterpriseAgendas21st CenturySocial IssuesEightyPercentagesGdpPharmaceuticalSocial Service
Author:Diogo Vasconcelos
Create image

“I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless – and timely.”

GivingYearsTwoBookWiseHonestDadLessonsTwo YearsCopiesCompassionateFulfillingTimelessEightyOld FriendsSixteenBlinkBlueprintsTimelyTwo Year OldsFulfilling LifeGod Never BlinksSixteen Year Olds
Author:Thrity Umrigar
Create image

“Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.”

IfsKnowsWayFeelsTwoFunnyDiesFallHoursAnswersInterestingBoysAirBirdPhonesCommittedMilesFlyingGoldenStoppingEightyEaglesDroppingUncommonMatingInteresting WaysWimpsTwo Birds
Author:Ellen DeGeneres
Create image

“About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.”

PeopleIfsWayCountryRunningDestinyRepublicanPercentVoteTwentiesDemocratOne WayFortySwingsEightyAbe
Author:Tom Clancy
Create image

“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.”

GivingYearsTwoMotherFatherWaterMemoriesFourOur LivesSixDiedSurfaceGhostThirtyKicksTwo YearsEightyGlamorousBlondeUkrainianFluffyGrenadeMother DiedBacksidesChurningMurky Water
Author:Marina Lewycka
Create image

“Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.”

KnowsWantFeelsHumanityEffortResponsibilityMillionsHugeHolesGuiltyReliefLayersEightyHurricanesGoodwillAmbassadorsHaircutsHabitatKatrinaHurricane KatrinaOzoneOzone LayerHabitat For Humanity
Author:Jon Bon Jovi
Create image

“Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically”

PeopleFirstsMeanPersonsMadeAgeIndividualLevelsMillionsTechnologyModernSubjectsHighestPerfectionInstrumentsRadioCommandMade ItOrgansDictatorshipEstatesLowestTelephonesEmployedEightyTransmitModern Technology
Author:Albert Speer
Create image