All Quotes

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
‐‐ T. E. Lawrence

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
‐‐ Ben Vereen

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
‐‐ Barbara Lee

Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.
‐‐ Jay Leno

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.
‐‐ Tori Kelly

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.
‐‐ Conrad Sewell

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.
‐‐ Megan Fox

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.
‐‐ Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.
‐‐ Steve Berry

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
‐‐ Jimmy Smith

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
‐‐ Jim Elliot

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
‐‐ Ree Drummond

Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
‐‐ Gene Ween

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
‐‐ Buddy Hackett

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

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
‐‐ M. F. Husain

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
‐‐ Cory Lidle

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
‐‐ George Washington Carver

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
‐‐ David Sanborn

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
‐‐ Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you're straight with the press, they'll be straight with you.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
‐‐ Madeline Zima

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.
‐‐ Jan Brewer

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.
‐‐ Tug McGraw

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.
‐‐ Justin Kirk