Nine Quotes
1356 Nine quotes by 1086 unique authors
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That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
— Rachel Caine
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I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.” The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is…
— Terry Pratchett
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I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
— Wallace Stevens
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Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
— Virginia Woolf
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And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,…
— Hermann Hesse
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You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.
— James Patterson
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I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
— Peter S. Beagle
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What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over…
— Catherine Anderson
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Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
— Warren Buffett
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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…
— Richard Dawkins
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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…
— Stephen King
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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…
— Lewis Carroll
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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.…
— Janet Evanovich
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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…
— Tamora Pierce
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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…
— Douglas Coupland
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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…
— Robin McKinley
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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
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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…
— David Sedaris
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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.…
— Francine Pascal
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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…
— James Patterson
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Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.
— James Patterson
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