All Quotes

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
‐‐ Bassem Youssef

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.
‐‐ Mickey Hart

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.
‐‐ Mohammed Morsi

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
‐‐ Cynthia McKinney

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.
‐‐ Murray Walker

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie and Kim Novak.
‐‐ Rory MacLean

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
‐‐ Sidney Altman

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.
‐‐ James Snyder

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
‐‐ Jane Campion

Eight years ago, if I wanted to do a YouTube video, I broke out my camera and filmed everything myself and learned how to edit and kind of become a one-woman studio. But we're living in an era now, thanks to ICON, where any creator who is online, they can create in their own space.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.
‐‐ Hans Rosling

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
‐‐ Grantland Rice

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
‐‐ Lee Westwood

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
‐‐ David Wilkerson

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
‐‐ Kate Williams

Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people.
‐‐ Christian Slater

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
‐‐ James G. Stavridis

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.
‐‐ Mitch Landrieu

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

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.
‐‐ Mary Roach

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

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

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

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
‐‐ Josette Sheeran

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
‐‐ Louis A. Johnson

Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
‐‐ Jay Chiat

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

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
‐‐ Lauren Hutton

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
‐‐ Chaim Weizmann