Nine Quotes
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.
I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one.
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.
I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.
Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.
Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."
