The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Sex is the. . . tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition. . . generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built