Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Gemma Ward

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

Gene Ween

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Bob Thomason

Sanders didn't play the first nine games, but he's back and playing at a different level.

Mark Eaton

After nine years I think it's time to give someone else the chance.

Drake Bell

'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

Pat Mitchell

There's a lot more work to it n a lot more. It used to be nine or 10 weeks. Now, it's become year around.

Alain Vigneault

You shouldn't need a carrot. There are eight, nine teams right now that are in a tight pack and we're right up there with them.

You put two more points on there, and we're not going to get nine points in 15 seconds.

Nat Wolff

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

Retief Goosen

He pretty much struggled all the way. Especially on the back nine this morning, and that's really where I got ahead.

H. L. Mencken

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

Greg LeMond

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

Tim Hudson

If I have that same stuff nine times out of 10, I'm probably going to win nine of those games. This was just the one time where they got me.

Lesley Manville

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

Paul Samuelson

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

Francesca Lia Block

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?

George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

James Patterson

Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

James Patterson

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

George Bancroft

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Michael Azerrad

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

Ray Bradbury

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Plato

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

Lance Berkman

I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.

Nora Roberts

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.