Approximately Quotes

#1. You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

Bruce H. Lipton

#2. Today, approximately 9 of 10 beers consumed around the globe are lagers.

Oliver, Garrett

#3. Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

Seth Godin

#4. Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.

Lucio Russo

#5. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words 'you are still alive.' You are still alive. Act like it.

Rudy Francisco

#6. Ericsson says that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, so it helps to start young.

Susan Cain

#7. Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.

Melodie Campbell

#8. According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

Luis Gutierrez

#9. Men with the highest dairy intakes had approximately double the risk of total prostate cancer,

T. Colin Campbell

#10. One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Roald Hoffmann

#11. Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

Eugene Ormandy

#12. Here are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body
your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

Jeremy Narby

#13. (The genomes of two individual humans differ by an average of about 3 million positions, which is approximately 0.1 percent of the total. Most of these are single base changes or changes in tandem repeat lengths.)

George M. Church

#14. Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute." Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, "What a sight to behold!

Mary Roach

#15. Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess. Or because I'm the cat curiosity is scheduled to kill in approximately six hours.

Lindsey Ouimet

#16. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.

Anne Lamott

#17. Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.

Max Heindel

#18. Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. ( ... )

Theodore Sturgeon

#19. I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

Rick Boucher

#20. Depending upon the accounting, approximately 4.3 or 17.6 percent of the plastic bags produced each year are recycled. The 4.3 number is the 2010 EPA number for plastic number 2 bags. These are what you think of as the typical grocery bag.

Michael SanClements

#21. Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.

Harper Lee

#22. In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Annette Funicello

#23. Nietzsche claimed that a philosopher's system of thought always arises from his autobiography, and I believe that to be true for all therapists - in fact, for anyone who thinks about thought. At a conference approximately

Irvin D. Yalom

#24. Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

Merlin Mann

#25. One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Anna Paquin

#26. The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Aristotle.

#27. If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.

William Davis

#28. To begin with, your body does not have a lot of sugar to use as energy. Of the approximately 160,000 calories stored in the body, only about 2,500 come from sugar (23,000 are protein; 134,500 are from fat).

Stu Mittleman

#29. I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. No phenomenon directly involving a frequency has yet been detected above approximately 10^12 cycles per second. We only deduce the higher frequencies from the energy of the particles, by a rule which assumes that the particle-wave idea of quantum mechanics is valid.

Richard Feynman

#31. In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#32. I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

Maurice Sendak

#33. Research has shown that any amount of gluten can damage the intestinal villi of a person with celiac disease (even as little as ⅛ teaspoon of gluten - approximately 1/1000, or .05 percent of a slice of bread).

Jules E. Dowler Shepard

#34. Today I was reading a book about a movie that I thought I could relate to. I read approximately the first 15 words, before I realized that the authors note won't tell me much about the pages ahead of it.

Andrew King

#35. Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

George Will

#36. Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

Jorge Cruise

#37. To get a clearer idea of the other half, allow me to paint a picture for you. Imagine, if you will, nothing. Now imagine that it's endless. Now triple that. This is a perfect description of the United States between the Denver International Airport and approximately Wrigley Field.

Doug DeMuro

#38. VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy," "hugey," and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are not words; all words are words.

Amy Leach

#39. Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

Dick Thornburgh

#40. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.

Rob Ford

#41. Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

Susan Jane Gilman

#42. I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#43. Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

Eric Idle

#44. According to my calculatons, twenty-five was approximately fourteen in man years.

K.L. Brady

#45. Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Ronald Reagan

#46. We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

John Banham

#47. However, I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, alienating people is inevitable.

Allie Brosh

#48. We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

Jim Murphy

#49. This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.

David Halberstam

#50. We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

Deepak Chopra

#51. I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you' and I haven't worked (at Microsoft) in two years. Even to this day people who don't know I left Microsoft still come after me.

Stephen Toulouse

#52. All humor aside, a 2 to 3-gallon pot still is an ideal size for a hobbyist. A three-gallon still will produce approximately one bottle of 50 percent to 55 percent whiskey, per batch.

Bryan Davis

#53. My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks. The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick.

James Clavell

#54. for approximately forty-eight hours. In bed, Kate went through her nightly Facebook routine - reading through her news feed, allowing her mind to wander the endless tangents of mutual friends' photos and wall updates. Then

Kim Stolz

#55. When people query whether Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is real or not, my answer is always: Sweden has recognized the condition for a decade and has approximately 300,000 EHS people.

Steven Magee

#56. Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.

Dave Barry

#57. For ten generations her family had styled themselves pharaohs. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor.

Stacy Schiff

#58. Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

Alison Sweeney

#59. For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Franz Kafka

#60. You see, it is approximately three million years old. What you are now looking at is the first evidence of intelligent life beyond the Earth.

Anonymous

#61. If you were able to see us as separate beings, you would see us as approximately one hundred beings.

Esther Hicks

#62. roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. It has an area of approximately 10,000 square miles, somewhat larger than the state of Massachusetts. Its climate is extremely hot and dry, and

Samuel Noah Kramer

#63. It is impossible to exaggerate how unprepared the medical community in West Africa was for this crisis. Prior to the Ebola outbreak Liberia had approximately fifty doctors in the entire country. Many clinics and hospitals had no electricity or running water.

Nancy D. Sheppard

#64. The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

Richard Brautigan

#65. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)

Judith C. Waller

#66. It takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise,

Susan Cain

#67. Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.

H.W. Charles

#68. Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

Theodore Gericault

#69. In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

Kenny Marchant

#70. A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Karl Kraus

#71. The Watchers have been protecting you to the best of our ability all your life, and have been watching for your birth for approximately 1500 years." Then he added pleasantly, "Would you like some cocoa?

C.A. Gray

#72. I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Joyce Carol Oates

#73. Violet had approximately four hundred and seventy-three frowns in her repertoire, which ranged from "The Biscuits Went Flat" to "You're Being Dreadfully Annoying." Just now, still peeved with my brother, she wore "Don't You Use That Tone of Voice on Me.

Lisa Mantchev

#74. Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

George Gamow

#75. If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.

Richard P. Feynman

#76. When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.

Tim Pratt

#77. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly.

John R. Lott Jr.

#78. The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Claude Shannon

#79. Today approximately three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States.

Eric Schlosser

#80. The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

Sally Miller Gearhart

#81. The [Motion Picture Production Code] took effect on March 31, 1930, 5 months too late to prevent the Wall Street Crash, but early enough to keep The Sixties from happening until approximately 1964. (When America fell victim to the British Invasion).

Stephen Colbert

#82. I know that the Federal Reserve vault holds more gold than Fort Knox. Fort Knox only holds about four thousand six hundred tons of gold. The Federal Reserve vault holds approximately seven thousand. That's a lot of gold.

Janet Evanovich

#83. In most Arab countries, it is still taboo for a woman to live alone and honour killings are still sanctioned. It is estimated that in Jordan, approximately 20 women are murdered by their own relatives every year. Most

Harvey Tripp

#84. Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

Curt Weldon

#85. In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

Dana Rohrabacher

#86. So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

#87. While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

Tim Holden

#88. If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.

Casey Neistat

#89. There are three roles one can play as a homosexual: one involving being the daddy to someone who is the son, another, therefore, being the sonny to that pop, the third involving looking for yourself in someone approximately identical to you.

Larry Kramer

#90. If the government wants to hide somebody, there's probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy.

Sherman Alexie

#91. I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

Sloane Crosley

#92. The category of small-cap value represents approximately 3 percent of the capitalization of the broad U.S. market.

Richard A. Ferri

#93. I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

Michael Cunningham

#94. Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.

Jody Williams

#95. Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.

Robertson Davies

#96. It seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine ... ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off ...

Tom Waits

#97. He looked calm and completely at ease. No trace remained of the wild man who had fucked me in the La Perla dressing room approximately eighteen hours and thirty-six minutes ago. Not that I was counting.

Christina Lauren

#98. Among frail, elderly patients, C. diff can be fatal in approximately 5-10%. Some patients with severe C. diff end up losing their colon and have a permanent bag on their side to catch bodily waste, via a procedure known as an ileostomy.

J. Thomas LaMont

#99. Because relationships are so predictable, right? Well, I'm finding a way to predict them. Take any two people, and even if they've never met each other, the formula will show who's going to break up with whom if they ever date, and approximately how long the relationship will last.

John Green

#100. [S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

Francis William Aston