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  • I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

    Past   Ninety Nine   Doe  
    "Theatrenow! Interview With Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Designer". "Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow! " with Anne Hamilton, theatrenow.wordpress.com. December 17, 2011.
  • At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

    tom holt (1991). “flying dutch”
  • Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.
  • Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  • The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

  • The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

    Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”
  • Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

    "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.
  • I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

    1934 The World as I See It.
  • There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.6, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    "Star of Parenthood and Kingdom Jonathan Tucker: Giving Back". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?

    Moving   Tired   Thinking  
    Jeff Lindsay (2011). “Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)”, p.36, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • 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.

    Cheer   Ninety Nine   Doe  
  • Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  • We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

    Art   Home   Rainy Day  
  • My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

    Source: www.tvequals.com
  • But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

    Art   Book   Ninety Nine  
    Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books
  • To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  • Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

  • Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

    Running   Errors   Light  
    "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.
  • Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

  • Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

  • Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

  • Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

    R. A. Torrey (2015). “D. L. Moody - Why God Used”, p.9, Editora Dracaena
  • WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent Runners!

    Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.52, Partridge Publishing
  • The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

    Art   Honesty   Attitude  
  • 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.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria
  • Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  • 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.

    Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”
  • I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

  • Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

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