Major Nine Quotes

#1. Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!

Pat Paulsen

#2. To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Mark Teixeira

#3. Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?

Jordan Sonnenblick

#4. It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

Bobby Vinton

#5. Cease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants.

Horace

#6. Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.

Ann Nocenti

#7. I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label.

Spike Jonze

#8. The number-one killer in this country is heart disease. And the majority of people suffer their first major heart attack on Monday morning between eight and nine. That is the time, of course, when most people are getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like, jobs that are making them sick.

Les Brown

#9. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

John Sedgwick

#10. One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

Kevin Allen

#11. I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

Douglas Bader

#12. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I

G.H. Hardy

#13. He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

Marion Chesney

#14. We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.

Morley Safer

#15. Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

Charles Williams

#16. I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.

Benjamin Percy