Harrison Ford

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

American Actor

Marlene Dietrich

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

American Actress

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

American Boxer

Wilma Rudolph

Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can't do a nine to five job.

American Athlete

Jason Kander

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

American Politician

Joanna Going

I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.

Michel de Montaigne

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

French Philosopher

Jane Fallon

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

English Author

Shannon Sharpe

My grandmother raised her nine kids and raised my mom's three.

James Caan

I rodeo-ed for nine years. That's my other life.

Nine is used as an ordinal number, for example when ranking things.

Ordinal Form

The phrase 'dressed to the nines' means to be dressed very elegantly.

Common Phrase

Nine as an adjective describes exactly how many items there are.

Specific Quantity

Use 'nine' to solve arithmetic problems involving this number.

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'Nine' refers to a baseball team, which traditionally has nine players.

Sports Term

Nine can refer to a coin used long ago, not to confuse with current currency.

Historical Value

The historical nine is specific to the UK and not relevant today.

Currency Specificity

'The nine' often relates to the nine Muses of arts and sciences in Greek culture.

Cultural Reference

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 is poisonous to us. We encounter measurements like this pretty often, but because it's hard to conceptualize really large numbers, it's difficult to wrap our brain around what one part per million really means. So here are nine helpful ways to visualize it.

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 submersibles there are chariots down into the deep ocean you're actually able to go in them often it's between two and three people and really you know it's this wild ride not for you know anywhere between sort of four or nine hours down into this

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 were named stratocumulus. Howard identified seven cloud types, but these have since been expanded to ten, cloud nine being the towering cumulonimbus thunder cloud, which is probably why being on cloud nine means to be on top of the world.

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 they sit themselves down at nine o'clock in a massive fruit tree and spend the whole day stuffing their faces i just get to sit under that and watch all of the little you know kind of soap opera of their day-to-day life unfold

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 which isn't surprising when you consider that there are still nine countries where women can be killed for straying. Now, monogamy used to be one person for life. Today, monogamy is one person at a time.

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 This linearity thing is a problem. When I arrived in L.A. about nine years ago, I came across a policy statement -- very well-intentioned -- which said, "College begins in kindergarten." No, it doesn't.

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 ourselves it will take her nine years to teach her youngster everything she needs to know about this complex treetop world

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