Ninety Quotes - Page 16

• 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 roles I play.

  Claudia Christian

  Ninety Nine, Play, Acting

  4 Copy quote

• Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  Ree Drummond

  Running, Advertising, Contests

  4 Copy quote

• "You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent."

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Humor, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

  Lucas Neff

  People, Pressure, Towns

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Junk, Television, Tvs

  7 Copy quote

• All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

  Jim Rohn

  Children, Book, Careers

  12 Copy quote

• 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 the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

  William John Locke

  Sex, Ninety Nine, Soul

  4 Copy quote

• The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

  Alan Coren

  Today, Useless, Cigarette

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Clothes, Brain, Would Be

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

  Jimmy Carter

  Japan, West Germany, Skills

  Remarks at 100th Anniversary Banquet of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles, Cal., 4 May 1978

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."

  R. A. Lafferty

  Men, Long, People

  "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1968.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

  Claude Monet

  Elements, Painting, Theory

  7 Copy quote

• All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.

  Joan Collins

  Home, Men, Ninety Nine

  4 Copy quote

• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.

  Ralph Nader

  Running, Country, Men

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Ninety Nine, Employers, Interest

  11 Copy quote

• To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Ninety Nine, Bacteria

  28 Copy quote

• Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.

  James Fox

  Teacher, Stress, Teaching

  4 Copy quote

• He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'

  Steve Perry

  Coffee, Eight, Japan

  22 Copy quote

• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

  Jonathan Demme

  Vocabulary, People, Singing

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, School, Mean

  10 Copy quote

• If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, Ninety Nine

  9 Copy quote

• All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, People, Trueness

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

  Saul Bellow

  Thinking, Nightmare, Life Is

  5 Copy quote