Nine Quotes - Page 10

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

One only really loves from a feminine position.

You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of them were scientists and some were crew members working on the ship. Just to hear their stories, like what drew them to Greenpeace in the first place and what they've been through. Every single second of the day they work to save the planet, which makes me as an actor feel quite insignificant.