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At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start. — Brian Tracy

Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated. — Brian Spellman

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. — Donald Hall

Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up. "Take — Stephen King

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. — Kristan Higgins

Hadza men were close to the average, spending more than 4 hours a day hunting - about eighty times as long as an Ngogo chimpanzee. — Richard W. Wrangham

At eighty things do not occur; they recur. — Alan Bennett

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. — Anthony Burgess

This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away for seventy or eighty years. — Don DeLillo

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? — Jay Samit

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. — O. Henry

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. — Brian Tracy

In a dream you are never eighty. — Anne Sexton

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties! — Dennis Hopper

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal. — Carol Roth

I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years. — Monica Wood

When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. — Betty Friedan

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. — James Rhodes

Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn't exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that? — Tim Cook

The risk of a fatal car crash with a driver who's eighty-five or older is more than three times higher than it is with a teenage driver. — Atul Gawande

Some people live more in twenty year than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person. - The Doctor — Stephen Greenhorn

Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them? — K.J. Parker

Eighty-five percent of all diabetes sufferers are overweight or obese. — H. Leighton Steward

Eight dollars and eighty-five cents. Sixty-five cents. I spent some. — J.D. Salinger

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really ... slow. -Grabrielle — Ally Carter

Did you know studies show that eighty percent of women have faked orgasm? And fifty percent admit to doing it on a regular basis? — Chloe Cole

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. — William Wyler

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. — Jackie Mason

Eighty-five percent of spirituality is a good night's sleep. — Howard G. Hendricks

About eighty percent of the women in U.S. prisons have children, — Piper Kerman

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic. — George Carlin

I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old. — Jessie Burton

Alright then. Remember kid, the devil is in the details. Paris. Nineteen eighty-four. — K. Larsen

We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four — Naomi Klein

So today, with our average life span in much of the world climbing past eighty years, we are already oddities living well beyond our appointed time. — Atul Gawande

Eighty percent of those she examined were found to have periods of "email apnea. — Arianna Huffington

CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE Losing the Light — Patrick Rothfuss

They gave Mrs. Cortez a check for five hundred and eighty-three dollars - a month's rent in advance and a month's rent as security - — Ira Levin

In the centre of our line, eighty paces to my left, I felt Cadus raise his hand; I did not need to look.
'Sound,' he said. That was all. — M.C. Scott

About eighty people die of gunshot wounds in America every day. — Stephen King

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. — Jim Gaffigan

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. — Kim Wilde

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh? — Linda Lael Miller

An ass lift? At eighty-two? I plan on proudly letting my ass drag when I'm eighty-two. I sure as hell wouldn't - — Kristan Higgins

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. — John Corigliano

She was eighty-five, and her sleep was as thin as her skin. — Stephen King

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia E. Butler

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. — Jon Winokur

The girl was eighty percent kitten and twenty percent lioness, and he considered it his mission to make her roar. — Kitty French

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. — Emily Bronte

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. — Jake Simmons Jr.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. — Bill Vaughan

Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique. — Nancy Rue

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns

Despite my tendency to keep eighty percent of myself to myself, I liked being surrounded by people. — Samantha Young

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. — Ronald Reagan

think that you can make a habit of working a sixty- to eighty-hour week without crashing and burning or creating havoc elsewhere is delusional. — Kerri Weems

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world. — Toni Morrison

For a long time, I kept an eye out for element eighty at school and in books, as you might watch for a childhood friend's name — Sam Kean

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love. — Jean Reno

Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity. — L.M. Montgomery

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent. — David Eagleman

Life begins at eighty. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. — Matsuo Basho

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? ... Amazed! — Ludwig Von Mises

I once heard someone say, I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young. — Diana Vreeland

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'. — Barbara Demick

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. — David Ben-Gurion

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov

Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer. — Curt Coffman

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. — Henry A. Kissinger

You're missing a whole demographic of Katherines by not chasing the over-eighty market. — John Green

Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! — George Burns

Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty. — L.M. Montgomery

Heart and soul, gut and balls, I love you. There's no one I'd rather hold. Not until I'm eighty. Not until the day I die. — Kristen Ashley

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't. — Kurt Vonnegut

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. — George Wein

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. — Patricia McConnell

Why is everything trying to eat me? — Eighty Six

I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy. — Rainbow Rowell

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. — Gertrude Atherton

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You — Robert A. Heinlein

She's eighty-four and still has all her teeth. She keeps them in a little wooden box on her dressing table. — Simon Hugh Wheeler

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. — Heather Mills

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. — Barack Obama

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose. — David Pleat

I can't wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying "rim job" in casual conversation. — Lena Dunham

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?
Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. — George R R Martin

No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George. — Penny Reid

Intellect is eighty percent of the mind trying to get the body laid. — Elliot Mabeuse

Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. — John Green

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. — Oscar Wilde

Eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, — Stephen King

In 1989, roughly one in fifty East Germans between the ages of eighteen and eighty worked for the Stasi in some capacity. — Julia Angwin

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking? — Sebastian Barry