Ninety Quotes · Page 6

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

— Thomas A. Edison

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.

— Erma Bombeck

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

— John McCarthy

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

— Peter Drucker

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

— Joe Mantegna

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

— Keith Waterhouse

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

— Bill Shoemaker

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil…

— Mindy Kaling

“Ninety days sober cleared my thinking enough to make me realize I’d hit bottom. If I were to go back to drinking,…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to…

— Tom Heinsohn

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the…

— Lincoln Steffens

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of…

— Charles B. Rangel

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to…

— Robert Towne

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty,…

— Wilferd Peterson

Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when…

— R. A. Torrey

I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot…

— Talal Asad

People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is…

— Felicia Day

I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent…

— J.A. Redmerski

The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the…

— Michael Pollan

Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into…

— Ralph Nader

It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they…

— Rich Mullins

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to…

— James Kelman

The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without…

— Charles Gavan Duffy

Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.’ – Cherise

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety per cent of players and managers don't support the club they are employed by.

— Simon Jordan

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can…

— Justin Kirk

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

— Susan RoAne

“If you’re not consistently carrying out your plan ninety percent of the time, you really don’t have a plan at all.”

— Alwyn Cosgrove

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

— Red Smith

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

— Gene Roddenberry

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

How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.

— Ian Paice

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

— Robert Johnson

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.

— Lindsey Vonn

“As the years went by, I gradually discovered that ninety-nine per cent of the things I worried about never happened. For”

— Dale Carnegie

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

— Martin Scorsese