“When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."” IfsKnowsSaidMotherEightMumGod KnowsNo HopeGod Knows Everything Author:Andrew Sullivan
“I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!” IfsThinkingYearsWellsDoeSaidPlayMightBitsWhiteForgetJudgingTwentiesPhotographerEightNinePianoMinorsViolinExaggerationNine Years Author:Paul Strand
“It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.” SaidShowsReadingHouseGivenWhiteEventsResearchPressesCurrentsEightBonesNewspapersWhite HouseFilesCurrent Events Author:June Lockhart
“Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.” PeopleWaySaidSleepWifeSonMonthsPeriodsWake UpSevenEightMy WifeUpsetOnlineMy SonUntrueHurtfulUp Early Author:David Plotz
“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.” YearsBelieveLooksPersonsSaidDifferentFactsHomeChristianPastAsksI BelieveTraditionCourtEightOutlookConcealedImprisonmentAnti SemiticLutherans Author:Martin Niemoller
“So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.” IfsGivingYearsSaidGuyCome UpEightShut UpNastyConferencesMelbourneVendorsSaying Nothing Author:Theo de Raadt
“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.” MindFirstsHumansHeartSaidTwoStatesPoliticalHumanityNationsUnderstandingSawsShareHuman NatureDutyMy HeartMetsConcernUniversalUnionsIncludingEightCampaignsPresidentialContinuingSeventiesInvolvementFirst LadyPolitical LifePresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.” SaidParentBoysSawsNiceObjectsSilentEightNineLife ChangingNeighborhoodIgnored1960sVery NiceDiscs Author:Steven M. Greer
“Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.” SaidShowsTodayNumbersMinutesGeniusLaughterWork OutEightRan Author:David Letterman
“That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'” LooksSaidStillsFightingGamesGoalPlayerWorstMonthsCharityEightFormerFakeBoxingHockeyWeekendRomneyPutinNhlExhibitionsOne SidedBoxing Matches Author:Jimmy Fallon
“President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.” FirstsSaidPresidentCrimeDrugFirst TimeMarkEightSentencesThanksRelatedServingPrisonerPresident ObamaArrested Author:Jimmy Fallon