Nine Quotes

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

By turns the nine delight to sing

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

Seems like only a year ago they were married nine years!

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it.

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

I don't have a nine-to-five brain.

I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.

I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.

The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.

Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes?

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.