Ninety Quotes · Page 12

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.…

— Karen Russell

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to…

— John F. Kennedy

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

— Tim Ferriss

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

— Stephanie Mills

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

— Balachandra Menon

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you…

— Theophilus London

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a…

— Robert Powell

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a…

— Osamu Dazai

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

— George Will

Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.

— Susan RoAne

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

— Alice James

I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no…

— Joss Whedon

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if…

— Cory Lidle

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

— Yogi Berra

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

— Bill Murray

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning…

— James Tobin

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go…

— Salma Hayek

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity,…

— Max Lucado

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Hmmm, I bet you’d be really cute with hornays. Not that you’re not cute right now, but you’re a bit young. You’re…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

— Theodore Sturgeon