Quotes with ninety-nine

Quotes 61 till 80 of 114.

  • Benjamin Disraeli Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Horace Walpole Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Chris Evert Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
    Chris Evert
    American tennis player (1954 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Meg Greenfield Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
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  • Yogi Berra Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Benjamin Watson Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • George Washington Carver Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Antonia Fraser Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Bill Cosby Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Arsene Wenger Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Mark Twain One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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