Ninety Quotes

• Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Invisible, Percent, Who You Are

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Law, Members

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

  David Hockney

  Taken, Garden, Kyoto

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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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, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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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

  Love, Music, Country

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.99, Penguin

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• Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

  Antonia Fraser

  Numbers, Lucky, Seven

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• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

  William H. Macy

  Preparation, Actors, Percent

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• Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

  Tug McGraw

  Waste, Good Times, Whiskey

  Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

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• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Actors, Cents

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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 is excessively discussed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ninety Nine, Literature, Obscure

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…”, p.18, e-artnow

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• The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

  Matthew Perry

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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  Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Leadership, People, Political

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2017

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Tennis

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• Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Eye, People, Nightmare

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

  Jim Elliot

  Wool, China, Five

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ninety percent of everything is crap.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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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

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  1934 The World as I See It.

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• Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

  Gene Ween

  Ninety Nine, Band, Stink

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• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Past, Forget

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