Nine Stories Quotes

#1. I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Colm Toibin

#2. A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Laozi

#3. I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.

Lisa Loeb

#4. The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

Lisa Loeb

#5. It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#6. A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Laozi

#7. 'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot

#8. The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were concieved of as six films of which the first film was number four.

George Lucas

#9. A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

Laozi

#10. I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

Ike Barinholtz

#11. He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.

Carol Anshaw

#12. I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

Ringo Starr

#13. I've learned we don't always get to pick our circumstances. We just get to deal with them.

Ginny Dye

#14. After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances ... I may be an orange peel.

J.D. Salinger

#15. I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.

Trevor Noah

#16. 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.

George R R Martin

#17. A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Robert Bork

#18. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

Ben Fountain

#20. As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

Al Gore

#21. When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

Ice Cube

#22. Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Tracy Austin

#23. I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The character of Hap wouldn't stop talking to me, and then there was a third, and over the years nine novels and a collection of stories and some uncollected stories.

Joe R. Lansdale

#24. It is like a skull, which still has holes for eyes, but no longer sight.

Victor Hugo

#25. Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

James Taylor

#26. Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.

J.D. Salinger