Nine Quotes - Page 38

• The wind is knocked out of me; and when I look up, I see Nine spitting blood out. He's grinning. "Are you crazy?" I ask. "You're enjoying this?" "I've been locked up for over a year. This is the best day of my life!

  Pittacus Lore

  Crazy, Blood, Years

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• Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did. I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.

  Gayle Forman

  Sorry, Mean, Past

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.140, Penguin

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• Raziel's sixty feet tall?" "Actually, he's only fifty-nine feet tall, but he likes to exaggerate," said Magnus. Isabelle clicked her tongue in annoyance. "Valentine raised an angel in his cellar. I don't see why you need all this space - " "Because Valentine is just WAY MORE AWESOME than me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Angel, Feet

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• I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

  Sylvia Plath

  Years, Strange, Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.40, Hamilton Books

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• Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.

  Sylvia Day

  Fun, Angel, Ninety Nine

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.595, Penguin

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• What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Six, Forty

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• And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Fall, What Matters, Ninety Nine

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• Nine lies on his back, groaning. His chest is shredded from where Eight slashed him, he’s got a fresh black eye, and I think I notice a trickle of blood from where I struck him with his staff. Suddenly, his groans turn to laughter. “That was awesome!” Nine hollers.

  Pittacus Lore

  Laughter, Lying, Eye

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• We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimæra. Probably your mom.

  Pittacus Lore

  Mom, Eight, Talking

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• It could kill you," Maura said. Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, People, Awkward

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• Check this out,” Nine says. He holds up a small purple stone and then places it on the back of his hand. The stone slides into his hand—through it. Nine turns his hand over just as the stone pops out in his palm. “Pretty cool, right?” he asks me, waggling his eyebrows. “Uh, but what is it supposed to do?” Eight asks, looking up from his own Chest. “I dunno. Impress girls?” Nine looks over at me. “Did it work?” “Um . . .” I hesitate, trying not to roll my eyes too hard. “Not really. But, I’ve seen guys teleport so I’m kind of hard to impress.” “Tough crowd.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girl, Eye, Purple

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• We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Time, Eight, Remember

  1958 'I Remember it Well', in the musical Gigi (music by Frederick Loewe).

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• When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Age, Twenties

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.375

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• A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

  Laozi

  Time, Stories, Earth

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ninety Nine

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• Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

  Ronald Reagan

  Birthday, Home, Two

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Horse, Ignorance

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Animal, Ninety Nine

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Ninety Nine, Funeral

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Patience, Children, Matter

  "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

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• Let your poem be kept nine years.

  Horace

  Years, Poetry, Nine Years

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, , 388, 18 BC.

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• In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.

  Matsuo Basho

  Writing, Poetry, Doubt

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• Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

  Augustus Hare

  Nature, Travel, Church

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• You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?

  Will Smith

  Life, Simple, Two

  "Actor-musician Will Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 13, 2007.

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• There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim

  Billy Graham

  Change, Angel, Order

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