Top 100 Quotes About Nine
#1. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)
Judith C. Waller
#2. Only twenty - nine years in the entire human history had been without warfare, and now here he was too, travelling between the episodes of a rapacious civil war.
Nadeem Aslam
#3. I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
Francis Ford Coppola
#4. The record changer clicked; another record dropped down. In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.
It was nine-fifteen.
Stephen King
#5. The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife' by Blur when I was nine.
Iwan Rheon
#6. I guess even at nine I had a serious lack of spiritual purity, for my wounds soured within two days, and for nine weeks I lay in fever, chasing dark dreams along death's borderlands.
Mark Lawrence
#7. Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.
John Seabrook
#8. I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. Estimated time of arrival is nine minutes, thirty-four seconds. Which, by my estimation, is enough time for Cinder to be defeated and embarrassed in seven more brawls." Cinder glared up at the ceiling. "Also just enough time to disconnect your audio device.
Marissa Meyer
#10. Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.
Morris Gleitzman
#11. In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
#13. Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
Aaliyah
#14. I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four."
He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.
Pittacus Lore
#15. In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
Dan Simmons
#16. [Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.
Lucille Kallen
#17. And waited to feel as if I had really started living. Nine months on I was still waiting.
Jojo Moyes
#18. In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline
Benjamin Graham
#19. Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!
Matsuo Basho
#20. I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.
Kesh
#22. Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.
Solange Knowles
#23. I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school.
Michael Moorcock
#24. It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
Sara Paretsky
#25. At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
David Sax
#26. I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.
Michael Laudrup
#27. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
William Wirt
#28. The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott McNealy
#29. 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
#30. At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
Rankin
#31. I trust that I raised a strong enough woman to know who's worthy of her and who isn't. If this guy is good enough for you, and he's the one who has you floating around on cloud nine and giving you back your spark, you can be damn sure he's good enough for me.
Cherrie Lynn
#32. Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
Dale Dauten
#33. No matter what the clocks and calendars say . . . The years between forty and fifty seem to take one. From thirty to forty takes two; twenty to thirty, three. From nine to nineteen takes twenty.
Edna Robinson
#34. I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
Ryan Tedder
#35. I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!
Reggie Lee
#36. I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.
Miranda Hart
#38. It would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.
Jim Butcher
#39. I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.
Barack Obama
#40. Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
Edward Abbey
#41. Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.
Adam Sandler
#42. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#43. Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.
Bruce Willis
#44. Okay. So you know, you need to beat the dealer. Yeah?" he began. I nodded. "Okay. When you count cards, you have to remember; cards between 2 and 6 have a value of a plus one. Cards between seven and nine have a value of zero. Cards between ten and ace have a value of negative one.
Claire Adams
#46. I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
Kate Beckinsale
#47. Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
Irvine Welsh
#48. The best gift you can give a baby is a full nine months of pregnancy.
Thalia
#49. Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie
#50. I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter ... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and a packet of Space Invaders. And then this happened. So I'm not just another actor who's around and jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you're hiring.
Robert Pattinson
#51. Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.
Tom Hodgkinson
#52. Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.
Vicki Myron
#53. We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.
Joanna Lumley
#54. I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.
Stephen Stills
#55. There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?
Satya Nadella
#56. I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.
Eve Ensler
#57. There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
Amanda Schull
#58. Five-hundred-fifty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents worth of Christmas decorations.
Heather Horrocks
#59. I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?
T.C. Boyle
#60. Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
Sheri S. Tepper
#61. I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.
Ronnie Wood
#62. Laurie picks up a briefcase and places it on the table. He opens the lid and his head disappears under the top. Oh god. Is he about to introduce me to a cat of nine tails, or some bizarre tickling stick? Brace yourself Liz. Cate told you to always carry your pepper spray, you fool.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#63. If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? - Matthew 18:12 niv
Gary Chapman
#64. In 2008, there were 1,210,000 legal abortions in the USA representing 22 per cent of all pregnancies. About 25 per cent of these took place prior to nine weeks' gestation, while 5.3 per cent took place after the sixteenth week.
Charlotte Vardy
#65. The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women ... Every girl in the world should have geisha training.
Diana Vreeland
#66. I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.
Jerry Lawler
#67. But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.
Johnston McCulley
#68. Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.
L. Tom Perry
#69. Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair?
R.A. Salvatore
#70. I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.
Lewis Pugh
#71. Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans.
Don Anacleto
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#72. No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
Eric Sevareid
#73. You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.
Ray Bradbury
#74. I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
Will Arnett
#75. 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.
#76. I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.
Ray Bradbury
#78. As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.
Dean Norris
#79. Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown
#80. If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.
Ron Silver
#81. Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.
Tina Fey
#82. It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.
Rocky Graziano
#83. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Daniel Libeskind
#84. I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.
Pearl Cleage
#85. If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby ... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.
Claire Foy
#86. Going to set, every day, and working with the incredible actors I get to work with is fulfilling. I've been doing this since I was nine years old, so it's always been something that I've been passionate about. It's always fed me.
Tatiana Maslany
#87. HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS
Nicole Krauss
#88. It wasn't my most fashionable dress, but anyone who called for me at nine o-clock in the bloody morning would have to take what he was given.
Alyxandra Harvey
#89. Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.
Brenda Strong
#90. In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don't believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don't know the ultimate reality.
Debasish Mridha
#91. I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.
Steve Case
#92. Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.
Sandra Cisneros
#93. There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.
Robin Thicke
#94. It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
Julia London
#95. People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.
Stella McCartney
#96. When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
Don DeLillo
#97. Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
William Feather
#98. I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#99. Do'nt feel bad for the scuicidal cats, they've gotta kill themselves nine times before they get it right.
Fall Out Boy
#100. Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
Sheryl Sandberg
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