Nine Quotes
I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?
Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.
I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.
The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!
I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.
To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
We had nine pails of candy for Halloween, now we are down to one. They go for a lot of the candy mixes. I think that they buy them for themselves sometimes.
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.
I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
When I found out that I was going to be CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.
