#eight

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#inches #just #nine #overweight #short

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#brought #deep #died #event #freighted

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#back #climbed #comes #gradually #heights

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#first #order #pulling #really #short

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#barrel #between #dollars #heightened #oil

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #eight #game #how #learning

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did. ↗

— Fatty Arbuckle

#eighty #hundred #i #more #never

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#arranged #compensate #constituting #each #equilibrium

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#ground #heights #keep #lofty #thoughts

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#filmmakers #get #ground #incredible #most