Ninths Quotes

#1. The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Aldous Huxley

#2. It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

I.M. Pei

#5. You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#6. Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

Georg Ebers

#7. It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

Colin Camerer

#8. We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

Amanda Lindhout

#9. The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

V.S. Pritchett