Nine Quotes - Page 3

• The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

  Edna Ferber

  Moon, Two, Four

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

  Frank Oz

  Years, British, Britain

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

  Joan Larkin

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Ninety Nine, Yesterday, Sticks

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Months, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Parent, Acting, Actors

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• One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

  Betty White

  Years, Age, Growing

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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• Seems like only a year ago they were married nine years!

  Jane Ace

  Years, Married, Seems

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• Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Change, Fighting, Rights

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• I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

  Storm Jameson

  Children, Silly, Use

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• [Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

  Lucille Kallen

  Law, Justice, Needs

  Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”

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• Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Ninety Nine, Way

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• My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Views, Birth Control

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• I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep.

  Laura Bush

  Sound, World, Want

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• I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dance, Passion, Dancing

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• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

  J. G. Holland

  Fashion, America, Public Opinion

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• For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Resistance, Firsts, Himmler

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Clever, Mean, Men

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• By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Writing, Thorough Knowledge, Years

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• Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Time, Believe, Thinking

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• ... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

  John Boyne

  Boys, Years, Immaturity

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

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Mother, Father, Taught

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• In 10 years' time I still want to be at Arsenal, winning trophies for my club and for the national team as well. I've been there since I was nine or 10. It feels like I've always been there, the club's been great to me and I feel I owe them that to be there and to stay around.

  Jack Wilshere

  Team, Winning, Years

  "Jack Wilshere interview: Paolo Di Canio was my boyhood hero... but I'll show no mercy to Hammers today". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2011.

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