Nine Quotes

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

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

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

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

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

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've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

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

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.