Nine Quotes

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Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second. — Theodore T. Munger
Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying… — Richard Doll
Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than… — Steve Kroft
After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done. — John Travolta
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. — Joseph Addison
It takes nine tailors to make a man. — John Heywood
You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451. — Ray Bradbury
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches! — Mae West
I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to… — Tori Amos
Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time,… — Claude Monet
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney… — Charles Schumer
Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about… — Martin O'Neill
Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came… — Trent Reznor
New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering… — James Packer
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and… — Theodore Roosevelt
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine. — Betty Comden
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to… — Karen Thompson Walker
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn… — Frederick Lenz
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. — David Salle
I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying… — Quincy Jones
I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of… — Barry Bostwick
I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a… — Kaitlyn Dever
There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation. — Ray Floyd

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