Top 1200 Nine Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When you're a comedian, and you show up on set to a job where you're not writing, and you get handed material that's as good as we do on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' you just feel lucky every day.

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

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.'

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

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

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

When I was nine years old, I was in a movie called, 'Landlord' with Pearl Bailey, Lou Gossett, and Beau Bridges.

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

Bullying about my skin tone probably started at nine years old and it was actually by the lighter-skinned black girls at school.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I started acting when I was seven, and I didn't get my first role till I was nine. So for two years, I was just auditioning.

Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

I've known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We've worked out together plenty. He's one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.

It took me nine years to get my first release. I have worked for it. I have earned it. I couldn't have asked for a better debut than 'Masaan.'

I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

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

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.

I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.

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

My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.

Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.

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

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

To play for Madrid for 10 years and also being the number nine you have to be very good and have a huge mental strength.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

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 thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

I was in Australia for nine years. I decided to come back in 2015 to set up some interesting projects in my own country.

When I was nine years old and dreamed of being a pro wrestler, the thing I was most fascinated by was how much love the wrestlers got.

My dad? He worked at a steel plant over in Charleston. Night shift. Nine at night to nine in the morning, no joke.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

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.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

I found myself playing Rajesh Khanna's mother just nine years after I played his leading lady in 'Khamoshi.'

The great thing about being on a series for nine years is you get to see the characters grow and change.

There is a specific mentality that is put into the young players at Barcelona, and from nine or 10 years old, you have to make good seasons because, if not, you are out.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

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

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

Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

I had a fantastic career at Chelsea. I was here for almost nine years, and it was great. I have nothing negative to say at all. It was all positive.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

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

Life for me in Los Angeles required medication. I spent nine years being sad and down in the dumps. L.A. doesn't work with my chemistry.