From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee.… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you… — Joseph P. Allen Copy Share Image
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
All of Europe is tremendously integrated now; perhaps from all those years of colonization. Everybody that they've colonized has come to the… — Patti Austin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Murder? You mean he's dead?" "No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway.… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand,… — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the… — William James Copy Share Image
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
“He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn’t even done… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages.… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
