Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
I have a nine handicap in golf - I can always find time for a round - and I'm on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.
It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.
Nine out of 10 English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes.
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.
I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.
I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.
You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
I know we live in a materialistic world. I am not living on Cloud Nine; I am not living in Disneyland. I understand all that.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
I got my inspiration when I sat down with my father, at about eight or nine years old, and watched 'The Rumble in the Jungle.'
He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.
You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.
Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
Winters are so long in northern Michigan - nearly nine months of gray skies and deep snow - that summer comes as a fresh burst.
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.
When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.
I've been in this industry for nine years and I've done a fair share of films, but it's not been rewarding enough for me so far.
Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.