"Nine-tenths of human law is about possession."
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"I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine."
"I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind."
"Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end."
"Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense."
"I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love."
"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"
"If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat."
"And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years."
"You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice."
"I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing."
"I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates."
"When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time."
"You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451."
"I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known."
"Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine."
"I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet."
"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."
"Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day."
"God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder."