Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

Megan Fox

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

Mike Tyson

I haven't been with a woman in nine months.

Linda Ronstadt

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Lincoln Steffens

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.

Leo Buscaglia

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Julie Andrews

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Julian Fellowes

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Gavin MacLeod

You know, nine years and six weeks is a long time for any show and I'm very grateful. But if you haven't got a script you shouldn't try to do it.

Robert McKee

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

Robin McKinley

He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.

Rudyard Kipling

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Roddy Doyle

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

Steve Irwin

Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.

Stephen King

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

Star Jones

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.

Tea Leoni

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life

Richie Havens

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

Tom Holt

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Sam Elliott

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

T. Berry Brazelton

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born,

Thomas Carlyle

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

Lenny Kravitz

Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

Rick Riordan

What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything.

Ray Floyd

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

Rajneesh

Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

William Feather

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Saint Augustine

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

W. C. Fields

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine