(902 quotes found)
“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work”
George Bernard Shaw
“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“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
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
Mark Twain
“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.”
William James
“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”
Calvin Coolidge
“They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.”
Shelly Winters
“Walking on cloud nine”
Proverb
“Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."”
