Nine Quotes - Page 6

• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Friends, Father, Angel

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• Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

  Robert Graves

  Hands, Poetry, Trying

  "Ten key things about... poetry" by Dorota Nosowicz, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2000.

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• To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.

  Brenda Ueland

  Morning, Horse, Jobs

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• My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Block, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Dark, Europe

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• I'm 100% better with a little bit of controlled chaos. I just know if I have three things to do, or nine things to do, I'm just better at them if I have nine.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Three, Littles, Chaos

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

  Spike Jonze

  Memories, Views, Years

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• I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep.

  Laura Bush

  Sound, World, Want

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• It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

  Robert K. G. Temple

  Years, Athens, Faces

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• I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

  Tracie Thoms

  First Love, Thinking, Ideas

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• Weve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmers son. There was a time when I didnt, when I rebelled against it, but theres certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

  Joseph Mawle

  Son, Work Ethic, Generations

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
  A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

  Plato

  Maids, Muse, Divine

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• The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Player

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• ... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.

  Lois Wyse

  Office, World, Zips

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

  Edith Wharton

  Book, House, Library

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.216, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

  Agatha Christie

  Ocean, Pregnancy, Voyages

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

  E. J. Gold

  Ninety Nine, Self, Percent

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

  Mary McGrory

  Children, Lying, Home

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• Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Marijuana, Two, Boston

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• Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

  Horace Greeley

  Rumor, World, Empty

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

  Joan Larkin

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Ninety Nine, Yesterday, Sticks

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Months, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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