9000 Quotes

#1. Manhattan has been continuously inhabited for the past 3000 years, and was first settled by humans perhaps 9000 years ago.

Randall Munroe

#2. The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

#4. I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.

Doug Stanhope

#5. Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#6. As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

John Gardner

#7. Where is your maman?
I don't know.
I think we've gone and lost her, Pea. Papa's voice dissolves into the colours behind my eyes.
I'm sorry Papa. I don't know how to find her, I say.

Claire King

#8. Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

Bhai Sahib Singh

#9. Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace.

Doreen Virtue

#10. You should know that I lead, not follow

Kelly Clarkson

#11. In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

Neil Innes

#12. As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

John Steinbeck