Tenth Quotes

169 quotes by 148 authors

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the… — T.E. Lawrence
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. — Groucho Marx
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about… — Julia Roberts
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing… — Jerry Saltz
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder
She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said. — Jerry Spinelli
You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. — Henry David Thoreau
Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and… — Tennessee Williams
My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking. — J D Salinger
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said… — Douglas Adams
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience,… — Haruki Murakami
Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining… — Randy Pausch
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a… — Bill Bryson
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had… — Jacqueline Carey
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry
Janie: Did you ever sell drugs? Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh...rather troubled back then. Janie: Why did you stop? Cabel:… — Lisa McMann
I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.â€ In… — Lisa Kleypas
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is… — Nick Hornby
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world — Justin Bieber

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