Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It`s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer.
Will Kemp
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It`s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.
Kylie Minogue
Realism is always subjective in film. There`s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it`s not really cinema ...
Crispin Glover
I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I`ll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It`s not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel bala...
Kristen Bell
Nothing I`ve done lately, the past eight years or so, has been especially worthwhile. I`ve been coasting along. Some of the pictures I`ve made recently I`m genuinely sorry about. Either I did a sloppy job in them, or the story wasn`t right. (1960)
Gary Cooper
[in August 1999, when asked to what he attributes his success] Hard work. You gotta study, man. It`s like any profession. I did eight years in theater. I studied two years in school in New York with Stella Adler, the best teacher in the world. I studied u...
Brion James
After Manhunter and To Live and Die, there were all these cop movies that came my way, but they weren`t any good, so I didn`t do them. Then there was talk about my doing Platoon, but I didn`t want to sit in a ditch in the Philippines for eight weeks for n...
William Petersen
God, I hate LA. It`s an evil place. So uncreative. You can`t walk anywhere, that`s what really gets me. I lived there for eight months. It`s something that you`ve really got to do when you`re starting out. You join the scrum of pilot season. Even as an un...
Sam Rockwell
I`ve been a working actor since age eight. It became my craft and career by high school. I did not go to college, but I`m an avid reader in the ongoing process of educating myself. (On why he never went to college)
Anthony Hall
He`s eight foot tall, has stupid glasses, awful hair, but it makes me look good, which is why he`s in the series. We look so strange on screen together as well. The height difference is ridiculous. I want people to know that he is a freak and I`m the norm...
Ricky Gervais
My mother says I didn`t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor
(On why he became sober) "Liv is possibly the biggest reason for me changing the way I lived. She is a dream daughter. When she was very young I wasn`t sure whether I was the father but, by the time she was eight, I knew for sure. I saw my features in her...
Steven Tyler
I`ll tell you one of the reasons I`m ready to leave. When I first came to Hollywood five years ago, my makeup call was at eight in the morning. On this movie it`s been put back to seven-thirty. Every day I see Joan Crawford, who`s been in makeup since fiv...
Grace Kelly
I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I`m very defensi...
Maggie Cheung
He didn`t want me at first, told me about the big-name actor he could get, how he was taller than I was - I`m five eight and a half - but I said, `That`s nothing, I can stand on a box.`
Malcolm McDowell
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
