Nine Quotes - Page 3

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.