Nine Quotes - page 3

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's OK. Just spell my name right. (Mike Tyson)

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

Gary Oldman

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

Jorge Luis Borges

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

Jorge Luis Borges

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

Fred Brooks

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Mary Augusta Ward

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

John Heywood

What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything.

Rick Riordan

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

Suzanne Somers

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

Helen Fisher

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. (Brian May)

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing.

James Patterson

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

James Patterson

Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

James Patterson

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

Jane Fallon

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

Jennifer Lynch

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Michael Fox

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

Anselm Feuerbach

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Kevin J. Anderson

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Hobart Brown

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)

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

Peter Mayhew

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Dave Navarro

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Patricia C. Wrede

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