Nine Quotes - Page 31

• Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.

  Erin Hunter

  Thinking, Warrior Cats, You Again

  "Moonrise". Book by Erin Hunter, 2005.

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• The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Sunset, Dying, World

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.1, Random House

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• Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.

  Groucho Marx

  Book, Giving, Dollars

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• I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

  James Patterson

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• There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.

  Warren Ellis

  Clothes, Years, Jerusalem

  "Transmetropolitan. Back on the Street (issues #1–3)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Sunday, Light, Glowing

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known. She'd been handed her diploma. There were no more surprises - or only this last surprise, that there were no more surprises. To torture herself, Irina kept looking, and looking, at Lawrence's face, like turning the key in an ignition several times before resigning herself that the battery was dead.

  Lionel Shriver

  Compassion, Keys, Doors

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• Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

  Neal Stephenson

  Christian, Atheist, Intelligent

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.69, Spectra

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• Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

  Chuck Klosterman

  Musical, Nails, Band

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• Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the magic can't fix. Other than that you should be all right, presuming you remembered to wear the regulation above-ground micro-fibre jumpsuit recently patented by me. Then again, being a Recon jock, you probably didn't.

  Eoin Colfer

  Blow, Magic, Magazines

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.

  Miriam Toews

  Fun, Fall, Together

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.

  Rachel Caine

  Judging, Style, Kind

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.109, Penguin

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• I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.” The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I work out.” Violet asked me, “What are you? What’s your cup size?” I shrugged and played along. “Like, nine and a half?” I guessed. “That’s my shoe size.” Violet said, “I think he’d like something slinky, kind of silky.” I said, “As long as you can stop me from rubbing myself up against a wall the whole time.” “Okay,” said Violet, holding her hands up like she was annoyed. “Okay, the chemise last week was a mistake.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Girl, Wall, Mistake

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• at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. Outside the boundaries of the universe lie the raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas, all being created and uncreated chaotically like elements in fermenting supernovas. Just occasionally where the walls of the worlds have worn a bit thin, they can leak in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Lying, Reality

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• I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

  Wallace Stevens

  Office, Six

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Judging, Rose

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.250, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teaching, Successful, Opportunity

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• Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Eye, Men

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Wings, Bars

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• I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Perseverance, Art, Helping

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.

  Catherine Anderson

  Brother, Fall, Thinking

  Catherine Anderson (2007). “Phantom Waltz”, p.19, Penguin

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• Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Talking, Parent, Frogs

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

  Richard Dawkins

  Biblical, Editors, Evil

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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