"In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you."
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"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
"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."
"Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine."
"I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine."
"I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."
"I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books"
"Now if six turned up to be nine, I don't mind, I don't mind."
"If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it."
"You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy."
"Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too."
"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten."
"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets."
"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."
"Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times."
"Nine in the box... that's a football term."
"I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old."
"Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle."
"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."
"Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten."