“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.” YearsFirstsThreeParentFourFitSixInstrumentsSevenGuitarEightFour YearsPlaying Guitar Author:Chord Overstreet
“I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.” YearsThreeForceHalfAirMonthsTenNotionEightThree YearsAir Force Author:Morgan Freeman
“Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!” CareThreeBrotherSixBlueEightNonsenseSlipsCentsConductor Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.” WritingThreeHoursSixPagesEightSatisfiedAgony Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.” IfsThreeStuffFansAmountEightSuitsButtons Author:Chris Paul
“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.” IfsThinkingNeedsHardThreeGamesWinningPlayerTeamFootballEssenceEightExtrasTrust Me Author:Alex Ferguson
“...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?” ThinkingMenFeelsFirstsSaidEndsStoriesLastsThreeHoursSawsBuildingThirdsFellowsEightThe End Of The DayFeel BetterBricksCathedralsIrritatedMaking A LivingBricklayers Author:Bill Vaughan
“Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.” MomentsThreeFoodSixCookingEightDinnerAlcoholImmortalCulinaryDesperationTypewritersConsoleGazing Author:Gyles Brandreth
“I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.” LittlesStillsPlayAgeSchoolThreeHoursActingBoysEightTinyPianoLittle BoysSchool Plays Author:Christian McKay
“People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?” PeopleDoeCharacterUsedFallThreeRolesFiveSeeingTwentiesFalling In LoveEightScreensFortyDivorcedOlder Women Author:Melanie Griffith
“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.” WritingYearsBookDifferentGirlThreeNamesHalfTakenFourMonthsEightLengthThree YearsFour YearsPublishersPublishAnother YearSeesaw Author:Linda Sue Park
“Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.” HelpingBodyThreeWeekBalanceSixMachinesEightYour BodyBarsMuscles Author:Lolo Jones
“It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.” FacesThreeFourTwentiesEightThirtyForty Book:Us: A Novel Source: Us: A Novel
“I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?” MenShouldThreeFourBallsEightNineShould IPitcherStrikeouts Author:Stan Coveleski
“It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.” WorldYearsMeanChildrenMadeSaidJobsThreeTechnologySonMomHusbandScientistInnovationRaisesEightWinnerSexismMedalRocketsBeefMatthewObituaryRenownedBest MomTechnology And Innovation Author:Deborah Copaken