(902 quotes found)
“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions”
Paul A. Samuelson
“By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!”
“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry”
Randall Jarrell
“That yenta Barbara Walters, she's nine-million years old.”
Howard Stern
“We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.”
Harry A. Blackmun
“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”
Werner von Braun
“I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?”
Frank Oz
