Nine Quotes · Page 17

I might lose nine or 11 rounds but who knows what's going to happen in the 12th round?

— Dereck Chisora

When I was nine, 'The Borrowers' was such a big series for me!

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

— Lucille Kallen

Nine times out of 10, if you win the game, it starts with the turnover battle.

— Lamar Jackson

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

— Stephanie Mills

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio.

— Blake Lively

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

— Jermaine O'Neal

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop.…

— G-Dragon

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they…

— Cecil Rhodes

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected…

— Hisham Matar

Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining…

— Sun Tzu

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

— Dalai Lama

I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to…

— A. J. Buckley

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small…

— Colin Powell

“Hell, even I'm a little surprised by Nine--between this and our little heart-to-heart in the doorway earlier, I might have to upgrade…

— Pittacus Lore

I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get…

— Richard Jeni

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch,…

— Charles J. Shields

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor…

— Robert Knepper

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting…

— Sloane Crosley

My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play…

— Yaya Toure

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come…

— Ai Weiwei

I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more…

— Janice Galloway

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no…

— John Stuart Mill

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture…

— Gail Carson Levine

The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees…

— Gloria Steinem

... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play…

— Mariko Mori

When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to…

— Takuan Soho

I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July…

— John Constable

In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially…

— Hilaire Belloc

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back…

— Dante Alighieri

I learned that we have the best energy when all nine of us are together.

— Dahyun

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

— Charles Duke

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.

— Jeri Ryan

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

— Virginia Wade

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

— H. L. Mencken

Don't stay in one place for eight or nine hours.

— Bernie Sanders

You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

— Rick James