Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Feather

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

Linda Ronstadt

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Lincoln Steffens

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Bob Holthus

I think you'll see a little different race out of him.

Andrew Cooper

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.

Alex Jones

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Tony Kanaan

I think we raced pretty smart. I know I'm going to have to win every race the rest of this year to win the championship.

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Alfonso G. Robles

...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Robert M. Hutchins

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Scott Adams

If you become a nuisance ... they're not going to like you.

Lee Stetson

It's more of a nuisance at a time when we're trying to wend our way through 20,000-plus applications.

Paul Erdos

Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance.

William Tucker

Accessibility has been an afterthought and nuisance to the county.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Oscar Wilde

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

Fay Weldon

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

Gertrude Stein

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.