Best Ninety Nine Sayings
124 Ninety Nine quotes by 98 unique authors
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Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
— David Sanborn
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Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
— Gene Ween
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The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has…
— Lincoln Steffens
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I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold…
— Tony Bennett
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Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the…
— Claudia Christian
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Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
— M. F. Husain
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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in…
— Cory Lidle
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Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
— Betty Comden
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Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of…
— William John Locke
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
— Thomas A. Edison
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
— Albert Einstein
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the…
— Buddy Hackett
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Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
— David Hasselhoff
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation,…
— Henry James
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
— John Stuart Mill
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Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
— Willie Nelson
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is…
— Robert Powell
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
— Thornton Wilder
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Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
— Ford Madox Ford
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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, and ninety-nine to…
— Kaye Gibbons
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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