Top 1200 Ninety Nine Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

After about nine blockbusters, I had forgotten how to deal with a failure when 'Jaan-Emaan' released. I was shaken.

I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.

I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

I had my both my ACLs repaired in college and I broke my patella, so those were all nine-month ordeals, if not longer.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

I've been car crazy my whole life, since I was nine years old. It's just something I'm very aware of.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

Being injured for nine months, it felt like a breeze to me mentally - nothing was really too difficult.

Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.

When you don't have a nine-to-five job, and you're with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it's not that you resent it - it's that you have all that extra time to think about it.

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

The stronger you are as a unit, the more you can control a race. The strongest cyclist in the world isn't as strong as two guys, let alone nine.

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

I got my inspiration when I sat down with my father, at about eight or nine years old, and watched 'The Rumble in the Jungle.'

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

I have vivid memories of my dad watching 'Not the Nine o'Clock News.' I didn't really get it but I thought it was hilarious because he was laughing.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

I've spent my entire life in Kolkata. My nine-year-old daughter, Hiya, studies here. My wife Mohua is a teacher.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.