Nine Quotes - Page 32

• She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

  Stephen King

  Color, Dancer, Mouths

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Turtles, Lessons, Next

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 9

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• THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Missing, Letters

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.25, Macmillan

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• If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Children, Night

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• Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Turtles, Tris

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• 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.

  Robin McKinley

  Relief, Hills, Boring

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• Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.

  Richelle Mead

  Attitude, Men, Essentials

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• My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

  David Sedaris

  Views, Names, Firsts

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

  Francine Pascal

  Mad, Barbie, Vapid

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!" "Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly. Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ... ... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

  James Patterson

  Cheer, Voice, Nudge Nudge

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• Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.

  James Patterson

  Names, Three, Juniors

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• Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Laughing, Stupidity

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  Ninety Nine, People, Gossip

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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• The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, White, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.346, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Life, Mean, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 20, 2014

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• This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Design, Littles

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

  James Patterson

  Drones, Sometimes, Seems

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Believe, Hatred

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Distance, Different

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.38, Random House

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• It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Years, Forever

  "Why the essential collection Bradbury Stories explains how to live forever" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Luck, Chance, Discworld

  "Equal Rites". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

  Rick Warren

  Honesty, Humility, Biblical

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• And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cat, Thirty, Dies

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.198, Faber & Faber

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• We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

  George Washington Carver

  Art, Home, Rainy Day

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• Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Wine, Son

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