“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Mum had to raise nine kids - and some of us were not the easiest kids to look after. — Hakim Ziyech Copy Share Image
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time.… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I was nine or 10 when I wrote my first song. I'd write about traumatic things that I've never gone through, such… — Ruel Copy Share Image
I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine! — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played… — Moby Copy Share Image
I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I went to work at seven in the morning. Around noon time we got the watery soup. And we worked until seven… — Lucille Eichengreen Copy Share Image
See what? I didn’t see anything. There were no scary people there. Nothing freaky. I’m going home now and tomorrow I’m going… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Check this out,” Nine says. He holds up a small purple stone and then places it on the back of his hand.… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
The best part was now. That was what she would take with her from her journeys through the ages: He was worth… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
