Nine Quotes

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

I'm 100% better with a little bit of controlled chaos. I just know if I have three things to do, or nine things to do, I'm just better at them if I have nine.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

It's so good for your health to take those naps. I don't know why people brag that they sleep five hours. I'd be ashamed. I'm proud that I sleep nine hours.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

I always joke that I'd like to be a cat 'cause then I'll have nine lives, and then I can do like everything. But that's really hard.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.

I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but I persevered because - like you trying to do a nine-piece jigsaw puzzle - it was a labour of love.