Quotes with forty-eight

Quotes 41 till 60 of 111.

  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Andrew Wiles I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • David Foster Wallace I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Bobby Jones 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
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bobby Davro If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Margaret Thatcher If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bo Burnham In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Joe Montana In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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  • Henrik Ibsen In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Thomas Malthus It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IX
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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