Percent Quotes (page 12)

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• doctor
• graduation
• science

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change. David Brin

• willed
• existed
• nothing

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist. George Orwell

• team
• control
• birth

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable. Laura Lippman

• business
• wisdom
• humanity

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. Robert A. Heinlein

• faith
• elephant
• meant

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent! Dr. Seuss

• time
• money
• personality

At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States. Bill Bryson

• ever
• us
• living

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. Bill Bryson

• failure
• excuses
• makes

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses. George Washington

• life
• unfair
• sometimes

Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit. Haruki Murakami

• giving
• saying
• life

I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. "Listen," she said, not unkindly, "up until now I would say that ninety-nine percent of all the narcotics you have taken in your life you bought from guys you didn't know, in bathrooms or on street corners, something like that. Correct?"I nodded."Well these guys could have been selling you salt or strychnine. They didn't care. They wanted your money. I don't care about your money, and, unlike your... Craig Ferguson

• failure
• excuses
• make

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver

• the office
• pool
• silly

Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with the disorganization and nave idealism of McGovern's campaign or with Richard Nixon's conduct. And he believed that not voting enabled him to be more objective in reporting on Watergate - a vier Bernstein regarded as silly. Bernstein voted for McGovern, unenthusiastically and unhesitatingly, then bet in the office pool that Nixon would win with 54 percent.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein

• spam
• internet

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam Margaret Atwood

• job
• kids
• miracle

If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters. James Patterson

• home
• rainy day
• art

We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts. George Washington Carver