Eighty percent of language lies to us.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

— Jake Simmons, Jr

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world…

— Douglas Coupland

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no…

— Billy Barty

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“She'd decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you…

— Nathan Hill, The Nix

“Eighty percent of success is just showing up.”

— Stephen King

“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and…

— David Eagleman

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the…

— Louis A. Johnson

I don't remember taking pictures with eighty percent of the people that I have taken pictures with.

— Lil Peep

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

— Matsuo Basho

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

— John Corigliano

Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President…

— Ralph Nader

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

— John Knoll

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

— Hans Christian Andersen