Nine Quotes

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.

Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

I've got a nine iron that says otherwise.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds.

I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep.

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.

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.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.