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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. View quote
Fred Brooks
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. View quote
Mary Augusta Ward
This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies. View quote
John Heywood
What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
James Patterson
You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record. View quote
James Patterson
Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2. View quote
James Patterson
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. View quote
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. View quote
Peter Mayhew
I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground. View quote
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. View quote
Peter O'Toole
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things. View quote
Patricia C. Wrede