#nine

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'. ↗

— River Phoenix

#change #change the world #course #everyone #first

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. ↗

— Vince Poscente

#bowl #fish #grow #grow up #inches

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#acting #been #certain #could #get

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#been #had #i #leading #leading man

If there's such a thing as somebody having nine lives, I guess I'm somewhat in that category. ↗

— Ron Rice

#guess #having #i #lives #nine

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#creator #deepest #experience #feminine #receiving

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#bad #every #good #nine #persons

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important. ↗

— Bobby Robson

#football #football match #important #match #minutes

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#deficits #discovered #forget #future #i

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#feminine #i #intellectual #same #see