A Quote by Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

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Kin Hubbard
American - Journalist
September 1, 1868 - December 26, 1930

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Peter S. Beagle

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

John Lennon

That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

Graham Swift

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

Dale Dauten

Some people are monogamous from the get-go while other date as many people as possible until you have "that conversation." Have the conversation at the start so that everyone is clear.

Andrew W.K.

Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

Vanessa Marano

I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

Gertrude Diamant

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Horace Walpole

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

Marcel Proust

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

Karl Marx

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Jeff Lynne

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.