Ninety Quotes · Page 7

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

— Claude Monet

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

— Brian Blessed

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

— Tom Holt

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

— Kalki Krishnamurthy

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

— Jan Brewer

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

— Rankin

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his…

— Anonymous

His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone…

— Steve Martin

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then…

— Donald Hall

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one…

— Caprice Crane

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would…

— Anonymous

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have…

— Brian Helgeland

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no…

— John Stuart Mill

When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they…

— Signe Baumane

When every new wave of immigrants looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty, or knelt down and kissed the shores of…

— Mitt Romney

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

One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room…

— William Segal

Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine…

— William John Locke

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

— Osamu Dazai

In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and…

— Conrad Hall

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

— John Stuart Mill

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

— Liam Hemsworth

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

— Mary McAleese

“It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.”

— Andrew Loomis

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

— Russell Conwell

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

— Tug McGraw

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

— Mason Cooley

“If you can either change your perspective or your response towards what you find disturbing, ninety per cent of the job is…

— Om Swami

Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

— Chris Evert

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

— Richard Pryor

The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

— Deepak Chopra

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

— Bill Gates

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

— Arnold Bennett

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a…

— Steve Berry

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