“Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.”

— Eoin Colfer, book Half Moon Investigations

Source: Half Moon Investigations

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Irish author of children's books 1965

Frankie Boyle (1972) Scottish comedian

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“Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.”

Chelsea Handler book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

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“A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

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“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at theduring the first eight pages.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“… if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.”

Eleanor H. Porter book Pollyanna

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“if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

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“Epictetus wanted little, and it seems that he always had the little that he wanted, and he was content”

George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar

The Philosophy of Antoninus
Context: Epictetus wanted little, and it seems that he always had the little that he wanted, and he was content with it, as he had been with his servile station. But Antoninus after his accession to the empire sat on an uneasy seat. … what must be the trials, the troubles, the anxiety, and the sorrows of him who has the world's business on his hands with the wish to do the best that he can, and the certain knowledge that he can do very little of the good which he wishes.