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"Ninety percent of everything is crap." »Theodore Sturgeon
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"Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head." »Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated
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"If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." »Ellen DeGeneres
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"ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." »George Washington Carver
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"I think and think for months and years. ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." »Albert Einstein, Sc
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"I think and think for months and years. ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." »Albert Einstein
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"ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." »Thornton
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"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards." »Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
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"Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate." »Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" -- page 180
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"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world." »Helena Rubinstein
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"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'" »Dorothea Kent
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"He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies." »W. Wirt
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"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side." »Anna Jameson
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"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
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"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." »Henry Kissinger
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"Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future." »John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
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"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." »Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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