#eight

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#climb #echoing #feel #grit #heights

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#color #different #different color #distinction #each

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#buying #car #decide #eight #first

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #eighty #everything #face #face value

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

— John Corigliano

#eighty #gravitate #percent #pieces #somewhere

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#because #been #eight #hard #i

I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#another #around #art #before #cartoon

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. ↗

— David Steinberg

#being #eighty #hours #hundred #lawyer

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand