“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.” GivingMotherActorsFourWeekSummerDaughterSillyNineMovieTurned DownVancouverSilly Movie Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.” IfsWantStillsRunningThreeHoursFourMinutesOughtNineWant SomethingVisitors Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.” IfsWayTryingMeanTwoHandsHoursLinesFiveFourSeaArmsSixRiversWeightFishesNineBoatLakesFishingPoundsLengthCasting Author:Ted Trueblood
“The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.” TwoFourImaginePossibilityPlanetsMoonNineGiftedAstronomers Book:A Kind of Magic Source: A Kind of Magic
“I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do.” PersonsKidsFourEmotionalDramaNineSensitiveBrothers And SistersSensitive PersonLove Drama Author:Courteney Cox
“I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.” WayEndsLove IsHellFourTypeBedTwentiesListsNineExpertsSixteen Author:Matt Groening
“I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?” MenShouldThreeFourBallsEightNineShould IPitcherStrikeouts Author:Stan Coveleski
“Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.” YearsLittlesFunBitsFourLittle BitMarkTwentiesTiredNineThirtyFour Years Author:Sammy Sosa
“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.” YearsLongOrderGivenHalfFiveFourTenPercentInvestingFavorsNineGamblingOddsCasinos Author:Burton Malkiel
“I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.” WritingCareHateLinesBreakMorningFourComputerStructureDon't CareNineLunchUnhealthy Author:Augusten Burroughs
“Well first of all I was nine weeks pregnant at the time and no one knew it. So it was - it had a whole other meaning for me not just because I had to let the dress out, you know, every few days before the actual day. But, you know, because that was the, you know, more important than anything else that was going on in my life. But in terms of actually winning I think I had been nominated four or five times before then. And every one of my co-stars had won up until that point.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsImportantWholeWinningStarsTermFiveFourWeekDressesNinePregnant Author:Debra Messing
“You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.” IfsWantNeedsTryingLittlesLongPlayKidsUsedFourBrotherCoupleAdultsBallsNinePlentyLeaguePitcherYour BrotherLittle League Author:Yogi Berra
“One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!” WellsTwoThreeFiveFourAliveTenSixSevenEightNineWhiningI Am Alive Author:Eugene Sue
“I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.” CareHoursAttentionKindnessFourCryDetailsNineNurseSurgeryTubesClinic Author:Eve Ensler
“To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.” StillsLastsMistakeStudyFiveFourEconomicStreetsMovementWallProveNineRecessionsCommentatorsOmenUnderstatementDownturn Author:Paul Samuelson
“Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.” FirstsHoursChanceFourMessagesPercentDatingSevenDinnerNineOnlineEmailElevenProfileOnline Dating Author:Amy Webb
“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.” TwoHomeSchoolNightHoursHalfPracticeMorningFourGrewBedTenSixGrew UpSevenGuitarEightNineClockAfternoonDedicationFifteenFourteen Author:Joe Pass
“When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.” YearsBigsCareWantedBeautifulLife IsUsedMotherFatherHouseStrongSidesFourBrotherSouthSevenTake CareNineThese DaysMinistersChicagoMamaLiving OnNine Years Author:Mr. T