Ninety-nine Quotes

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.

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

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

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

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.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.