Percent Quotes
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
Cynthia Heimel
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
Saul Bellow
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And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent of the cases that occur in middle- or upper-class families, usually associated with home renovations. People are sanding paint, removing banisters, cleaning up windowsills, and they don't realize that they're spewing lead dust around in the house. And then the kids get it.
Deirdre Imus
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It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it.
Michael Kiwanuka
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In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.
Michael E. Mann
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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
William Friedkin
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Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.
Ryan Sheckler
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If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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He had heat like he did the other night (against Northeast). He's about 100 percent now.
Lynn Barber
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They say a man can change his personality—the basic essence of who or what he is—by five percent. Five percent: the total change any one of us is capable of.
Craig Davidson
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We're less than 1 percent behind last year, at this point.
John Bacon
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As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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I'm still not at 100 percent since the crash last week.
Tyler Hamilton
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Motor racing is 99 per cent downs and one per cent ups. It's a huge challenge, as there are so many things that can go wrong.
Nigel Mansell
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We believe that such a significant increase in longevity is due to the protective effect against cancer produced by caloric restriction - incidences fall by 40 percent if we compare them with the mice that produce more telomerase and have a normal diet - and, added to the presence of longer telomeres, this makes the mice live longer and better.
María Blasco Marhuenda
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Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.
Marilyn Horne
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I always ask myself: "Did I get one percent better today?"
Benson Henderson
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In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.
Nicholas Ray
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(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.
Richard Rainwater
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You want to be accepted by people. For 99 percent of his career, he has been and for that to completely change now, I think is something I don't know if any of us can comprehend what he's going through. By his expressions, you can tell that it is definitely beating him up.
J. M. Roberts
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
Lois McMaster
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I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.
Dean Edell