Top 1200 Nine Inch Nails Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I wanted to be an actor since I was just nine-years-old.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

Nine million Americans a year, that we know of, struggle with infertility.

Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

Nine times out of 10 I'd like to bet on myself.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

I never wanted to wear skirts or shoes, makeup, nails, dresses, or even wear my hair a certain way. I always wanted to wear sneakers, stud earrings, hair in a ponytail, and play with the boys.

If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming.

You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

One day I decided to go to a hardware store - I picked up six pieces of wood, a hammer and nails, and built a box. It probably sounded useless at the time but its taken me to where I am today, and its been well received from drummers and percussionists like Josh Devine from One Direction and Robbie Williams drummer.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

I'll stutter step, then drop the shoulder, a little pump, a little Kobe Game 7 fade-away, and the hooks coming too. And Malcolm [Subban] knows, he's got an inch on me but he can't defend that. He knows that.

I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Back in the day, years ago, in 1988, the only TV I watched was 'Doctor Who' because I had children and two full-time jobs, and 'Doctor Who' was the exact length of time it took to do my nails, so I would watch 'Doctor Who' once a week!

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.

I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

When I kicked in the first TV ? a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels ? it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.

When I first started playing basketball, my coordination was horrible! I went into high school at 6 feet and left at 6-7 and then grew another inch in college. Catching the ball, it was bad. I've always been pretty athletic, but when I got really tall, I just felt awkward.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

When I was nine years old, I was on the cover of 'Sport Karate' magazine.

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

One boy made fun of me because one day, I had really curly hair, and I wear glasses normally, and I also bite my nails. I feel like everyone is different in their own way, so, people shouldn't try to make them feel bad because of that.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.