Top 100 Ninety Percent Quotes
#1. In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.
Lawrence Lessig
#2. Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women's collective dating history.
Alice Walsh
#3. Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.
Rose Tremain
#4. Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
Gabe Newell
#5. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
Dr. Seuss
#6. And I've got a lot of weight behind me."
Shadow grinned, a charming boyishness shining through. "Yes, but it's like ninety percent baby and water. You'll lose it all once she's born."
"Really?"
"I have no idea, but it sounds good, doesn't it?
Ellis Leigh
#7. We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.
Tom Robbins
#8. The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.
Chris Claremont
#9. Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.
Joshua Bell
#10. Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.
Stephen Graham Jones
#11. Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures ... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.
Mindy Kaling
#12. People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
Caprice Crane
#13. 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.
Charles B. Rangel
#14. I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But miracles? Miracles, my friend are a different thing entirely. From what I can see, miracles are built from love, and as far as love is concerned, I am a true believer.
Lorna Landvik
#15. And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.
Paul Tudor Jones
#16. Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated.
Brian Spellman
#17. We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
John Green
#18. If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#19. 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
#20. Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
John Derbyshire
#21. Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
Terry Pratchett
#22. Remember, if you have a problem, it's your problem. Solve it. Don't blame other people. Don't burden people with your complaints. Ninety percent of the people you meet don't care about your troubles. The other 10 percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
#23. Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.
Liam Hemsworth
#24. I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
Ronnie Hawkins
#25. You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.'
'Ninety percent of Eastwood's male population laughs over their own farts. Present company excluded, naturally.
Robyn Schneider
#26. One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him - besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade - was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly.
Ben Mezrich
#27. Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin.
Laurie Anderson
#28. I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
Rita Mae Brown
#29. Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.
Justin Kirk
#30. Vamps are really only like ten percent fun at any given time. The other ninety percent is largely fretting. And bloodletting.
Chloe Neill
#31. Because people are assholes," said Bear, dutifully keeping his head down. "Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.
Becky Chambers
#32. There's about six original people in the world. The rest of everybody else are copycats. When it comes to religion and politics, ninety percent of people do what their parents did and think they made up their minds for themselves. They watch the news to see what the latest trends are.
Roland Merullo
#33. Ninety percent of health care is spent on chronic illnesses, and eighty percent of those are preventable, said Morgan Kendrick, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia.
Anonymous
#34. I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers
those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.
J.A. Redmerski
#35. Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
Terence McKenna
#36. Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
Arnold Bennett
#37. Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
Chris Evert
#38. Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.
Edward Herrmann
#39. Ninety percent of everything you believe you can achieve in life you will.
Gregory C. Dugger
#40. No. I'm a wreck," she said in the squeaky high voice of one who is determined not to cry. "You do not seem like it," Mrs. Wattlesbrook squeaked back. "Thanks," Charlotte chirped. "I do yoga. Ninety percent of confidence is posture.
Shannon Hale
#41. There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat would be ten percent rat and the rat would be ninety percent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things.
Norton Juster
#42. Ninety percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
#43. Ninety percent of who you are is invisible. - Mrs. Zender
E.L. Konigsburg
#44. But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future - ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
Joko Beck
#45. You're loading the deck. You're wasted. And I'm ninety-percent sure you're Irish - tell me, why would I trust you?"
Quinn thought about it. The man had a point - well, several. "Because you like my accent?
Daniel Younger
#46. Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
George Will
#47. Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.
Katherine Applegate
#48. You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
Joe Mantegna
#49. Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.
Yogi Berra
#50. His itching caused ninety percent of his wounds; hence to us it was vital to overwrap to create that very important padding to prevent him from hurting himself.
Silvia Corradin
#51. Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
Hans Frank
#52. We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.
Joycelyn Elders
#53. Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
Gabriel Cousens
#55. The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.
Bernard Hopkins
#56. Put in the bluntest possible terms, what I discovered was that the U.S. secret intelligence community was collecting only information it considered secret, while ignoring the eighty to ninety percent of the information in the world, in all languages, that was not secret.
Robert David Steele
#58. Ninety percent of the people I've worked with who are disruptive or lazy or unskilled or addicts or likely to throw a tantrum are men. Ninety percent of the ones who get called "difficult" are women.
Anna Kendrick
#59. Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
Scott Westerfeld
#60. Ninety percent of the songs and movies we listen to and see are based on love. We like to talk most about the things we don't have.
Arathi Menon
#61. Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
David Byrne
#62. MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel,
Richard H. Thaler
#63. Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
Betty Friedan
#64. That - in which case the weather would get much hotter, with a ninety percent chance of fiery apocalypse.
Rick Riordan
#65. Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
Saint Augustine
#66. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.
Barack Obama
#67. Ninety percent of the population spends time imagining their future and forgetting that now is where we live and breathe. The ten percent who live in the present are the ones who have the stories to tell, the ones who live life the way it's meant to be lived.
Everly Drummond
#68. Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.
Bill Maher
#69. Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
Eddie Perez
#70. The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
Mason Cooley
#73. Its a proven fact that all plans involving bacon have a ninety percent better chance of working out.
Jeff Gunhus
#74. Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.
Tim Reid
#75. 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
#76. Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian, it would make life so much easier. I hear they're more than ninety-percent faithful. What a concept!
Nanci Rathbun
#77. Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#78. If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
Katherine Anne Porter
#81. The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Arthur Bloch
#82. I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.
Amy Tan
#83. Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.
Will Smith
#84. Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
Yogi Berra
#85. More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting
Martin Scorsese
#86. Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing.
Mark Victor Hansen
#87. Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet.25 At this rate, by 2030, only ten percent of the Earth's tropical forests will remain.
Chris Hedges
#88. Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
Bill Gates
#89. Ninety percent of success come from the choices you make; the other ten percent comes from persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter Drucker
#91. I decline the coffee. I don't drink it, because no matter how much sugar I put into it, it still tastes like ass-water to me. Maybe it's because my taste buds are so desensitized to sweet that anything not comprised of at least ninety percent sugar tastes wrong
Katja Millay
#93. Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.
John C. Maxwell
#94. Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
Wayne Gretzky
#95. Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.
Kurt Godel
#96. I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.
Theodore Sturgeon
#97. Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.
Adrian Tomine
#99. I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable ... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
Zosia Mamet
#100. That's a distinction that's going to make a lot of difference to the ninety percent of humanity that doesn't know the difference between astrology and astronomy,
John Scalzi
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