Nine Quotes

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

I was born nine months premature.

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.