“I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.” YearsFiveMinutesNineChristmasClockShoppingToysValentineFive MinutesValentine's DayClosingDecember Author:Jamie Foxx
“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
“The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.” WayActingStreetsMinutesStudentsCreatingTownsHotFingersPhonesMilesNineHillsLandscapeFlatsLos AngelesApartmentMultitudesMidnightAvenuesEighteenPhone CallsGarageDiagonal Author:Steve Martin
“If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?” IfsThinkingMenDoeEarthSexMinutesEightEvery ManNine Author:Peter Greenaway
“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!” ThinkingWorldWayBelieveWellsLongSeemsTimeValuesI BelieveHoursDifferencesFiveFeetMinutesStrangeWeightNineInstanceFasterFortyPoundsRomeKillersTwelveInchesSixtySixteenHealerSixty Minutes Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.” MindBodyNightHoursSleepWatchesMinutesTvsBedEightCriticalNineSlow DownDisturbingInvigorating Author:Richard Simmons
“Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.” FeelsMadeTwoRunningHoursHalfMinutesCostBenefitsGolfNineHolesFeel BetterBetter OffHard Truths Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.” YearsLittlesStillsMotherMinutesMomMassCatholicBoringMy MomTraumaNineSundayMassiveNine YearsPunching Author:Richard Jeni
“According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.” MayMadeBigsLastsGuyNextHeavenBlackStepsFeetMinutesStyleDrugShotsPrisonAlbumsRapNineRanCentsLast TimeDealerDrug DealersBlack Guys Author:Chelsea Handler
“I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.” GivingPersonsMinutesChangedMountainSpeechHonestlyNineSwimEverest Author:Lewis Pugh