“The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.” DifferencesSixPagesNineIllustration Author:Molly Crabapple
“I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.” YearsFilmYoungEightNineHookedNine YearsManiacs Author:Charles Ferguson
“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.” ThinkingYearsEndsWholeProblemSecretHappenedInfluenceTenSolutionsFairsIraqEightNineEnormousMantras Author:Seymour Hersh
“The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.” WaterSacrificePercentEntertainmentNineRejectionToilNinetyNinety NineIcebergEntertainment Business Author:Jonathan Tucker
“I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.” TryingYearsPayBoysHealthyNineAppetiteWorkoutNine Years Author:Italia Ricci
“After having been confined to a television series - and it's a luxury job - where you can't play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn't affect me. I got out quick enough.” YearsEnoughPlayCharacterJobsTelevisionParticularMonthsSeriesNineInsaneLuxuryConfinedNine Months Author:Johnny Depp
“I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.” ChildrenFourWifeOur ChildrenNineGrandchildren Author:Morgan Freeman
“My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.” PeopleYearsPlayWantedSchoolNightSongTeacherPiecesTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolMusicalOilNineBackgroundsTexasElitesTimingTraveledOutstandingBucksSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Carl Gardner
“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.” YearsBigsAbleArtistSongKingsOffersSucceedTwentiesIntelligentHip HopNineHipsSubstanceThirtyHopsTeenageMcdonaldsMacsExtendingMtvRansomHip Hop ArtistTeenage LifeBig Mac Author:Chuck D
“I had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I've always wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that nightmare.” ThinkingFeelingsWantedFilmPiecesHorrorTenNineRememberedNightmareHorror Film Author:David Robert Mitchell
“I work almost completely year-round, since I was 18 or 19. It's nine months a year, and then you're out of town, (there are) crazy hours and all of the things that go with filmmaking, which is a pretty all-consuming business, although I'm very blessed to be a part of it.” YearsHoursCrazyMonthsTownsBlessedRoundsNineFilmmakingConsumingNine Months Author:Zooey Deschanel
“I don't mean to sound so disenchanted, but I will tell you what has been going on in our country in the mere - the last nine months to a year in terms of the fact that there is clear evidentiary proof based on video footage.” YearsMeanHas BeensCountryFactsLastsSoundTermClearMonthsMereProofNineVideoOur CountryNine MonthsDisenchanted Author:Sharon Cooper
“Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never see them again. If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones." [Bashar] Assad's people rebelled. He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him. So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.” PeopleIfsWantWritingYearsChildrenHelpingParentForgetWifeMilitaryWallProtectEightNineCrushedNine YearsGraffitiAssad Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“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
“Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]...." That's happening less and less now, but all it takes is one of those when you're nine, ten, eleven, twelve - and it's hard to describe to people who aren't, because of course if you're not gay, an eleven- or twelve-year-old wouldn't even remember that that happened.” PeopleIfsYearsHardMightRememberCoursesRealizingChurchSinHappenedPrayingGayTenHappeningsNineTwelveEleven Author:Stephen Karam
“I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.” MenYearsDifferentCharacterCoursesAnswersInterestingMissingCriticismMadNineRefreshingNine YearsMad Men Author:Christina Hendricks
“I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.” NeedsFeelsYearsLittlesStoriesShowsEffortLike YouSevenEightNineMagazinesPublishingNine Years Author:Ben Fountain
“It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want?” WantEndsCharacterShowsTenFolksNineClassicTunesComing OutLooney Tunes Author:Bob Bergen
“I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.” WorldFirstsBelieveAgeAbilitySawsPlayerFirst TimeNineMassiveChampionshipFloridaBuilderBest Players Author:Rory McIlroy
“I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."” NeedsShouldSaidRememberNextStepsCareersBrotherMomConversationMy MomEightNineMy BrotherBroadwayNext StepsSam Jackson Author:Aldis Hodge
“I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine.” MorningOfficeNormalEightNine Author:Pedro Winter
“I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The character of Hap wouldn't stop talking to me, and then there was a third, and over the years nine novels and a collection of stories and some uncollected stories.” YearsIdeasCharacterStoriesThreeTalkingNovelThirdsSeasonsSeriesNineNo IdeaCollectionsThree YearsSavages Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“Well, that would be a title [the busiest guy in Hollywood] still reserved for Ryan Seacrest. I have one assistant; he has about nine. I don't have a food taster yet, I don't have a fluffer either. But, yes there are some days when I don't know if I am coming or going.” IfsKnowsWellsStillsWould BeGuyHollywoodNineTitlesReservedAssistants Author:Joel McHale
“I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.” YearsWholeHouseDyingPeriodsScaredEightNineWhole Year Author:Jens Lekman
“What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.” WayReasonAliveBabyMythNineIndianReason WhyGuatemala Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.” KnowsWantYearsBigsFallBoysKingsFalling In LoveNineDinosaursNine YearsGorillasKing Kong Author:Peter Jackson
“I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.” YearsWantedUsedActingCoupleNineDancerBallet Author:Mia Wasikowska
“I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.” WantYearsHas BeensKidsPassionSpaceNineMy PassionNine YearsWant To Travel Author:Peter Diamandis
“If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is.” IfsDifferentRecordsOriginalsNineJerry Author:Chris Isaak
“I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.” YearsTodayRememberGamesLevelsPlayerYears AgoInternationalNineNbaTwelveRemember WhenEighteen Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.” ProblemWould BeNextActorsSpeakLanguageHoursQualityNineDialoguePoeticNo Problem Author:Quentin Tarantino
“If you just heard 90 percent of dentists recommend something, it's too statistical. Nine out of 10 says: Well, it's just virtually everyone. It leads you to think of that joke about the one dentist. But so much of communication.” IfsThinkingWellsHeardCommunicationJokesPercentNineDentist Author:Frank Luntz
“Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.” YearsWonderfulTelevisionMonthsTrainNineRunawayNine MonthsImmediacyMonths Of The Year Author:Tina Fey
“My brother is the lifelong musician, he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.” WritingYearsMadeKidsRememberYoungChoicesHouseBrotherListeningBandMusicianNineMy BrotherLifelongNine Years Author:Kevin Bacon
“I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.” KnowsSeemsSpeakWonderMillionsKnow HowMusicalPopulationNineComing OutRipeSwedenSpeak EnglishSwedish Author:Mike Pesca
“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.” GivingWritingBookGroupsInspirational LifeGiving UpOrganizationFellowsNinePublishingConferencesCritiqueHooked Author:Beth Revis
“1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.” YearsStillsPlayWinningChanceSixVery GoodNineHolesStrokes1960sGood Chance Author:Jack Nicklaus
“I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.” PeopleKnowsFightingWinningSawsFansRoundsNineBoxingFollowersSupporterMuhammad Author:Muhammad Ali
“I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination.” ThinkingWayWellsHas BeensAbleImaginationFunctionNineGradesGroundedMy ImaginationDollsEighth Grade Author:Susan Sarandon
“They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.” WaySaidIdeasEndsRaceToo MuchParticularJudgingComfortVoteClaimsCurrentsUglyHearingNineBackgroundsThey SaidEthnicityLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.” YearsStillsWantedOrderSubjectsFiguresTaughtHeroHigherTenScientistMathematicsInspiredUniversityPhysicsNinePhysicistMy Hero Author:Vandana Shiva
“Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.” IfsShouldLinesVoteAgreeNineTwelvePsychiatristVote For Me Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.” PersonsDifferentHomeWantedYoungMotherFatherChildhoodCallingDeeperNineDrunkMiserableNovelistsSymptomsSpyMessed UpPlayboyDesertedDyslexic Author:James Hillman
“Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.” YearsHumansAnimalHalfLandGreenPlantAverageEightNineMeatVegetarianCowsConsumptionCornCropsAcresSoybeansGreen Plants Author:Sharon Gannon
“I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.” DreamJobsActorsChanceCompanyGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingSecurityBenefitsNineFilmmakerBusDozenSalaryBrooklynHarlem Author:Malcolm Goodwin
“I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.” MotherHoursBabyMonthsNineAdoptedOne HourNine Months Author:Michael Franti
“Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.” YearsLittlesPlayCommunityBoysWonderfulGrewGrew UpLet MeBallsNineGood TimesNeighborhoodWonderful TimesHad A Good Time Author:Jeff Sessions
“I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.” WorldYearsDoeLastsPrinciplesExerciseNineNine Years Author:Joe Biden
“I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.” YearsStuffGuitarNineBarsThirteenNine Years Author:DJ Ashba
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” ThinkingSuccessFallPositivePositive ThinkingTenPositivityNinePositive AttitudeInner StrengthKey To SuccessFalling DownRoad To SuccessStudent SuccessThink PositivePositive Thinking And AttitudePositive Thinking AttitudeGreat AttitudeGreat Positive AttitudePositive Thinking SuccessAttitudes And SuccessNever Lose HopeInspirational Positive AttitudePositive Attitude And SuccessPositive Thinking InspirationalPersistence In Business Author:Jon Bon Jovi