Nine Quotes - Page 15

...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

I won't deny that I'm in touch with my feminine side. If I'm in a lift and there's no one in there, I'll have a glance and check my hair. And if there's someone in there, I'll still check it.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.