Per Cent Quotes

297 quotes by 268 authors

In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per… — Dennis Skinner
If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at… — David Ricardo
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent.… — Selima Hill
Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget. — Gianfranco Zola
One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north,… — Marcel Desailly
I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records. — Missy Elliot
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would. — E. W. Howe
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like… — Peter De Vries
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish. — John Updike
You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend. — Bill Cosby
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it… — Bjorn Lomborg
Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the… — Stefanie Powers
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into… — John Crowe Ransom
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax. — Alan Sugar
Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. — Gene Ween
Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still… — Laurent Lamothe
Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. — Julian Fellowes
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has… — Gerhard Richter
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only… — Gerhard Richter

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