Nine famous quotes

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
-- A. C. Benson

#Believe #Nine #Reason

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
-- Abhinav Bindra

#Games #Nine #Lasts

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Time #Eight #Nine

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
-- Alan Stern

#Moon #Jupiter #Nine

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
-- Alexis Bledel

#Years #Television #Nine

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.
-- Amanda Donohoe

#Nine #Emotion #Weird Things

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
-- Ambrose

#Giving #Nine #Stewardship

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Long #Nine #Facts

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
-- Andrew Marr

#Nine #Journalism #Right Time

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.
-- Andrew Niccol

#War #Gun #Nine

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Generosity #Nine #Sides

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.
-- Anna Paquin

#Years #People #Nine

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.
-- Anne Fortier

#Doors #Nine #Tomorrow

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy

#Degrees #Magazines #Nine

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Nine #Way #Persons

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
-- Antonin Scalia

#World #Nine #Lawyer

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
-- Assata Shakur

#Clouds #Trying #Nine

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Law #Nine #Possession

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.
-- Bernie Mac

#Night #Breakfast #Nine

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Government #Nine #Modern

I was a cheerleader for nine years!
-- Betsey Johnson

#Cheerleading #Years #Nine

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
-- Betty Comden

#Answers #Want #Nine

I've been playing the drums since age nine.
-- Bill Berry

#Age #Nine

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
-- Bill Shoemaker

#Winning #Nine #Way

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
-- Billy Wilder

#Cutting #Finals #Nine

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
-- Birch Bayh

#Baby #Important #Nine

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
-- Bobby Moynihan

#Years #People #Nine

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that
-- Bobby Robson

#Soccer #Nine #Score

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.
-- Brenda V. Smith

#Halloween #Thinking #Nine

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
-- Brian Ferneyhough

#Past #Years #Nine

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.
-- Brian Robertson

#Nine #Ghost #Reason

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.
-- Bruce Willis

#Feet #World #Nine

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Love #Valentines Day #Nine

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Pms #Nine #Interviews

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.
-- C.P. Snow

#History #Half #Nine

The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
-- Cal Ripken, Sr.

#Doctors #Games #Nine

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Political #Politics #Nine

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
-- Carly Fiorina

#Phones #Littles #Nine

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
-- Carolyn Maloney

#Adults #United States #Nine

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
-- Caryl Chessman

#Cat #Nine #Nine Lives

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Cheer #Nine #Doe

Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula.
-- Celia Rivenbark

#Weather #Degrees #Nine

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?
-- Charles Duke

#Moon #Fake #Nine

A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.
-- Christopher Columbus

#Girl #Demand #Nine

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous...
-- Claude Monet

#Thinking #Nine #Evening

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
-- Claudine Guerin de Tencin

#Friendship #May #Nine

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.
-- Clint Walker

#Falling In Love #Fall #Nine

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
-- Colin Mochrie

#Believe #People #Nine

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.
-- Connie Willis

#Years #Nine #Hundred

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
-- Cory Lidle

#Air #Land #Nine

You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.
-- Craig Adams

#Practice #Guy #Nine

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hey #Stitches #Nine

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hair #Color #Nine

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.
-- Dale Dauten

#Appreciation #Nine

So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
-- Dan Buettner

#Years #Saving #Nine

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#World #Nine #Thirty

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news.
-- Darren Criss

#Clouds #News #Nine

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
-- Dave Allen

#Comedian #Half #Nine

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
-- Dave Navarro

#Two #Shooting #Nine

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
-- David Cross

#Years #Would Be #Nine

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
-- David Hasselhoff

#People #Nine #Ninety

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.
-- David Neeleman

#Children #Father #Nine

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.
-- David Tang

#Chinese #Dialect #Nine

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.
-- Deidre Hall

#Television #Nine #Facts

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
-- Diana Gabaldon

#Names #Nine #Enough

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
-- Donna Leon

#Justice #Ruth #Nine

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
-- Dwight Yoakam

#Directors #Nine #Months

Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#Giving #Today #Nine

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.
-- Emilia Clarke

#Girl #School #Nine

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
-- Ernie Banks

#Shining #Nine #Cubs

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
-- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

#Months #Done #Nine

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
-- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

#Mother #Father #Nine

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
-- Euripides

#Waiting #Luck #Nine

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
-- Fannie Flagg

#Running #Home #Nine

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
-- Fernando Sabino

#Nine #Path #Nostalgia

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Marion Crawford

#Basketball #Famous Basketball #Nine

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.
-- Frank Oz

#Years #Nine #British

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.
-- Franklin Knight Lane

#Baby #Office #Nine

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
-- Fred Brooks

#Baby #People #Nine

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
-- Fulton J. Sheen

#Being Yourself #Unhappy #Nine

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.
-- Fuzzy Zoeller

#Opportunity #Want #Nine

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.
-- Gemma Chan

#Musical #Nine #Terrible

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
-- Gemma Ward

#Attention #Nine #Firsts

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
-- Gene Ween

#Band #Nine #Stink

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.
-- Geoff Dyer

#Opposites #Nine #Charming

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer

#Nine #Lasts #Wonder

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
-- George Bancroft

#Nine #Tongue #Disappointed

During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.
-- George Orwell

#Art #Nine #Entertainment

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.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Magic #Looks #Nine

Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
-- Georgette Mosbacher

#Phones #Creating #Nine

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.
-- Gordon Ramsay

#Cat #Nine #Nine Lives

I was proud of myself coming down that back-nine
-- Graeme McDowell

#Proud #Nine

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
-- Greg LeMond

#Groups #Charity #Nine

I've lived nine lives . . . And this is the worst.
-- Grumpy Cat

#Nine #Nine Lives #Worst

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
-- Harold Geneen

#Negative #Nine #Surprise

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
-- Harold Prince

#College #Nine #Saws

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
-- Harold Prince

#Emotional #Nine #Saws

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
-- Harold Ramis

#Years #Nine #Film

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.
-- Harold Ramis

#Weekend #People #Nine

Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word.
-- Heber C. Kimball

#Brother #May #Nine