Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

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 is excessively discussed.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Albert Einstein

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Anna Jameson

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

David Ogilvy

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

Daphne du Maurier

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

David Hasselhoff

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charlotte Whitton

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

Alexandre Dumas

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Gwyneth Paltrow

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

Kevin O'Leary

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

J. K. Rowling

Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus.

Huey Long

For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

Jeaniene Frost

…well just call me Hannibal Lecter. With cleavage.