I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
John McGahern

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
Nicholas Lea

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
Bobby Jones

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
Jack Herer

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
Robert Toombs

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.
Corbin Bernsen

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. Truman

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
Joe Montana

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
Paul von Hindenburg

In the last couple of years, I guess I've spent six figures on clothes. I figure I spend a lot of time shopping. Eight to ten days a month, I go out and buy. Yeah, I guess you could say that I'm a real clothes whore.
Sam Kinison

In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.
Piper Perabo

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
Charles Keating

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
Amos Oz

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.
Kevin Keegan

It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
Jim Messina

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
George Crook

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
Hortense Odlum

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.
Marilu Henner