A Quote by Rick Moody

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

Rick Moody

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Rick Moody
American - Novelist
Born: October 18, 1961

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A. C. Benson

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place.

Haruki Murakami

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Leo Buscaglia

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Patricia C. Wrede

Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

Vicki Myron

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.

Peter Lynch

We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimæra. Probably your mom.

Pittacus Lore

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

Sturgill Simpson

He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.