One Cent Quotes

#1. I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

Jerry Buss

#2. The difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the difference between one cent and zero is huge!

Dan Ariely

#3. Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a one-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents? Do

Dan Ariely

#4. I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Roy Acuff

#5. Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

Kumi Naidoo

#6. Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniete. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo centimo, es caro.

Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.

Seneca.

#8. I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Don Hewitt

#9. Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

Alfred Bester

#10. In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

Leah Hager Cohen

#11. The post office says they're raising the price of stamps by one cent because they need to upgrade their equipment. Apparently, they're going from semi-automatics to uzis ...

Conan O'Brien

#12. Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

Alfred Bester

#13. As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.

Darren McCarty

#14. If a person thinks that one cent coin is of too little value, he cannot succeed in life.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#15. 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

#16. I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or
the color work in a ten-cent magazine.

O. Henry

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

John Crowe Ransom

#21. Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that.

Kimi Raikkonen

#22. You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

Archie Panjabi

#23. Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

John Buchanan Robinson

#24. 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

#25. Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

Gordon Brown

#26. I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

John Updike

#27. My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

Alan Shearer

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. It may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back with the tears of his whole life, for the sense of beauty is violated.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#36. One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

Gary Hamel

#37. What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M.C. Escher

#38. One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

Walther Nernst

#39. Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're not paying ourselves. There are people giving it to us and no one is putting a gun to their heads. Something has to be done if we're going to fix this.

Brett Hull

#40. In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Karl Lagerfeld

#41. There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

Vidya Balan

#42. If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.

J.A. Konrath

#43. The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

#44. One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

Marcel Desailly

#45. I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#46. I find it magnificent how beau-tiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength.

J.D. Salinger

#47. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.

Osamu Dazai

#48. There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Norman Vincent Peale

#49. To come right down to it, if I take the kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the one hundred per cent dedication I have to whatever I believe in-these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age.

Anonymous

#50. I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.

Rex Stout

#51. Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

Abhinav Bindra

#52. My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.

Gerard Way

#53. Nothing in life ever was a complete and one hundred per cent success, but often one could well afford to settle for less, and this would seem to be the greatest lesson one could learn in life.

Paul Gallico

#54. If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

Kumi Naidoo

#55. One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

Zayn Malik

#56. When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.

Meek Mill

#57. In other words, every cent the French government spent on guns for the Americans was another centime it would not have to spend on butter for the starving peasants who would one day storm Versailles.

Sarah Vowell

#58. Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting, you're doing it in the context of everything you've posted before. Let's delete everything, save the stuff that's important, and then you only have to organise the one per cent that's worth keeping.

Evan Spiegel

#59. I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Michael F. Easley

#60. That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#61. The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.

Adolf Hitler

#62. One is led to the conclusion that the one hundred per cent male and the one hundred per cent female are theoretical

Niels Hoyer

#63. If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

Franz Beckenbauer

#64. I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

Gautam Singhania

#65. One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

Julius Genachowski

#66. You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

Bill Cosby

#67. Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Swami Vivekananda

#68. In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Derek Bok

#69. THE FINAL TOUCH
Portrait of nobody in particular
Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.

Piet Hein

#70. We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

Rahul Gandhi

#71. It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

Tina Brown

#72. If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

#73. No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

George Matthew Adams

#74. A recent study shows that one hundred per cent of youngsters on hard drugs had at some time in their lives listened to so-called pop music

William Donaldson

#75. They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom."
It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin.

Melina Marchetta

#76. I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

Peter De Vries

#77. A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

Henry Ford

#78. You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

Eva Mendes

#79. it was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one.

Frederick Douglass

#80. Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

Godfrey Gao

#81. Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

Jean De La Fontaine

#82. YOUR OPINION OF YOURSELF BECOMES YOUR REALITY. IF YOU HAVE ALL THESE DOUBTS, THEN NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IN YOU AND EVERYTHING WILL GO WRONG. IF YOU THINK THE OPPOSITE, THE OPPOSITE WILL HAPPEN. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. - 50 Cent When you were born, you entered this world with no identity or ego. You were

Anonymous

#83. I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it.

Laura Schlessinger

#84. Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).

Bill Bryson

#85. I'm not even the one per cent; I'm the one per cent of the one per cent;

Ian McDonald

#86. In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.

Cameron Russell

#87. 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

#88. I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.

Doug Aitken

#89. The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow
from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one
true principle of highly effective people.

Richard Koch

#90. Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

Robertson Davies

#91. Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Deirdre O'Kane

#92. If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#93. Nobody should pretend to be always one hundred per cent honest. I wish I knew how to be seventy, sixty per cent." I swore she must be one hundred and ten, two hundred.

Saul Bellow

#94. I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.

Woody Harrelson

#95. I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

Ridley Scott

#96. For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

Giuliana Rancic