Nine Quotes

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Don't stay in one place for eight or nine hours.

I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

I've been playing the drums since age nine.

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.

If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is.

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

Nine million Americans a year, that we know of, struggle with infertility.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.