Quotes on Nine

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.