Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

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.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Shiv Khera

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Albert Einstein

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

Ninety percent of the time, it is reflective of success.

Ninety percent of them are doing something better every game. Now, hopefully, that we have a program they have something to work towards; we're just two steps shy of having all of it put together.

Ninety percent of people don't even know this thing is even in their car.

Ninety percent of me thinks there was a Pope Joan.

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.

Betty Comden

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

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

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.

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Francesca Lia Block

I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

Gene Ween

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Harold Geneen

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

Linda Ronstadt

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Lincoln Steffens

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Julian Fellowes

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Nora Roberts

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

Megan Fox

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Stephen King

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

Rajneesh

Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment.