Top 100 Cent Quotes
#1. When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.
Nguyen Tan Dung
#2. I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
Nicole Kidman
#3. Nobody's so damn well educated that you can't learn ninety per cent of what he knows in six weeks. The other ten per cent is decoration.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
Michael Gove
#5. Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.
Earl Weaver
#6. We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.
Ben E. King
#7. You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'
Rihanna
#8. I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.
Richard Krajicek
#9. When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.
Juliette Binoche
#10. There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.
Robert Powell
#11. There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Karl Lagerfeld
#12. No less than 99.5 per cent of the world's habitable space by volume, according to one estimate, is fundamentally - in practical terms completely - off limits to us. It
Bill Bryson
#13. The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
Natalie Cole
#14. Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.
Richard Dawkins
#15. I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or
the color work in a ten-cent magazine.
O. Henry
#16. The unprecedented development of science and technology ... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.
Robert Platt
#17. It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow.
Anna Funder
#18. A real tank now costs about a million dollars, while a hallucinated one amounts to less than one-hundredth of a cent per person, or centispecter per spectator. A destroyer costs a dime. Today you could fit the whole arsenal of the United States inside a single truck.
Stanislaw Lem
#19. Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.
Rohit Shetty
#20. At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
Julie Bishop
#21. Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Jeffrey Archer
#22. I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
John Updike
#23. It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.
Graham Hancock
#24. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.
Dubravka Ugresic
#25. The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
Henry Miller
#26. I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
Jimmy Buffett
#27. I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
Stieg Larsson
#28. I think it's incredibly basic: we have to now deliver all of the huge advantages of trading with the 92 per cent of people in the world who aren't in the EU, so for me that was the final deciding factor.
Andrea Leadsom
#29. When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire
#30. Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis
#31. Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.
William S. Hart
#32. We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.
Alexander Lukashenko
#33. Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal
#35. The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
#36. Why would you as a consumer continue to support a product that exists to build someone's empire or satisfy shareholders, when you could buy a product that exists 100 per cent to help someone else? (pg 168)
Daniel Flynn
#37. You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
Warren Buffett
#38. That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
Bill Klem
#39. Therefore, the general consensus is that diets should provide about 55 per cent of energy from carbohydrates, 30 per cent from fat, and 15 per cent from protein.
David Bender
#40. My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.
Alan Shearer
#41. I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
Jill Sobule
#42. We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
Caryl Churchill
#43. Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely.
Richard Happer
#44. My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.
Poppy King
#45. It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
Adam Ant
#46. 99.99999999999999999 per cent of every atom consists of empty space. It
Holly Smale
#47. Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.
Samuel Goldwyn
#48. Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion.
Seth Shostak
#49. If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
Mickey Mantle
#50. I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
Gail Porter
#51. Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
Terry Wogan
#52. I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.
Matthew Morrison
#53. Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
Tommy Steele
#54. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin
#55. Eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business,
Stephen King
#56. In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.
Yuval Noah Harari
#57. I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.
Gerry Harvey
#58. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.
Ken MacLeod
#59. The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.
Richard Tol
#60. The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.
Tom Hodgkinson
#61. I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
Roy Acuff
#62. Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
Malcolm Turnbull
#63. Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
Gianfranco Zola
#64. I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#65. Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.
Bill Bryson
#66. I can't be 100 per cent sure about the whole death thing as I'm still here,
Josh Langley
#67. Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Bjork
#68. You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
Dakota Fanning
#69. About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.
Robert McCrum
#70. So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.
Michael Greger
#71. Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes.
John McPhee
#72. What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
Eugene Field
#73. I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy
Roy Jenkins
#74. The six heirs to the Walmart fortune have more wealth than the poorest 30 per cent of Americans.
Russell Brand
#75. A rupee invested in Page Industries' IPO in March 2007 is worth Rs 34 presently (in April 2016), implying a compounded annual return of 47 per cent. That same rupee would be worth just Rs 2 if invested in the Sensex, implying a CAGR of 8 per cent. Thus
Saurabh Mukherjea
#76. Ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences.
Poul Anderson
#77. between 1885 and 1908 the pursuit of growth and profits cost the lives of 6 million individuals (at least 20 per cent of the Congo's population).
Yuval Noah Harari
#78. My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers.
Stephen King
#79. Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.
Ahmed Zewail
#80. Both my parents, grandmother and all close relatives who met Diana liked her very much, and my parents and grandmother never objected to our relationship. They were very much happy for us to make a decision ourselves and made it clear they would support it 100 per cent. We both had their blessing.
Hasnat Khan
#81. over 10 per cent of the population; two thirds of them from the armed forces.
Neil MacGregor
#82. Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.
John Kendrick Bangs
#84. I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.
Myles Munroe
#85. Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.
Alessia Cara
#86. But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
William Allen Butler
#87. The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.
Siobhan Dowd
#88. When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
Curtis Jackson
#89. What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though ...
Brian Molko
#90. I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.
Anatoli Boukreev
#91. I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.
Alan Dershowitz
#92. Food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.
Joshua Donellan
#93. Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
#94. I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
Gene Tierney
#95. Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.
Zoe Sugg
#96. Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.
Linda McQuaig
#97. In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.
Rory McCann
#98. I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
Paulo Coelho
#99. Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).
Bill Bryson
#100. If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.
Will Smith
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