Nine Quotes - Page 6

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.