Nine Quotes - Page 14

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.

Grace is a feminine quality.

A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.

Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick, dizzy, something going berserk in your mind. You cannot go on looking at Picasso's painting long enough. You would like to get away, because the painting has not come from a silent being. It has come from a chaos. It is a by product of a nightmare. But ninety-nine percent art belongs to that category.

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.