“Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.” ShouldTurnsKeysShotsEightSecondsTurn-onKeyboards Author:Linus Torvalds
“A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.” MenStoriesTurnsWomenCareersHistoricalEightExceptionBiographies Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen
“My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.” HomeLife IsTurnsHoursEightGoodbyePushingHelloSubwayNever EndingArrivingTokensNoddingDepartingPushing ThroughPirouettes Author:Rob Payne
“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.” ThinkingLooksSometimesStatesTurnsGirlWomenMarriageFourTwentiesRemainsEightWitHillsThirtyRejoiceEnteringRepentSummitEighteenPlungeSeventeenWedlock Author:Samuel Richardson