Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Harry A. Blackmun

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

Graeme McDowell

I was proud of myself coming down that back-nine

Jack Nicholson

You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.

Marissa Moss

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

We had nine hits. I'm surprised because they had some quality pitching.

H. L. Mencken

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Retief Goosen

He pretty much struggled all the way. Especially on the back nine this morning, and that's really where I got ahead.

H. L. Mencken

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

Tim Hudson

If I have that same stuff nine times out of 10, I'm probably going to win nine of those games. This was just the one time where they got me.

Lesley Manville

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

Out of 10 bouquets, we sell about nine red.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Lupe Fiasco

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.

Shiv Khera

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Walter Salles

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

Webb Simpson

One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

Constance Marie

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

If there's such a thing as somebody having nine lives, I guess I'm somewhat in that category.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

Stephen Ames

Tiger played exceptionally well, It was a rough nine for Tiger.

David Ogilvy

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

David Bowie

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Benigno Aquino III

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

Daphne du Maurier

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

Dwight Yoakam

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

Blake Lively

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio.

We think the window is going to remain open for six to nine months, and potentially much longer.