A Quote by Damon Runyon

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Damon Runyon

Quote Topics

America Complete Document Heart Human Humanitarian Humor Most One-Third Rogers Third Will

Quote Author

Damon Runyon
American - Journalist
October 4, 1880 - December 10, 1946

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

Wole Soyinka

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

James Toback

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Craig Venter

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.

Carol Ross Barney

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Woody Guthrie

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won’t. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

Lilian Katz

I'm a Benedictine Nun in outlook; I divide my time evenly so one third is spent in academe, another third on writing and the final third on television and radio.

Bettany Hughes

Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

George Allen

Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third

Angelina Jolie

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is a 'sentient being', would it not be reasonable to expect that if it loses one-third of its trees and vegetable covering, it will also die?

Richard St. Barbe Baker

Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.

James Patterson

To be honest, in 2012, I was against both candidates, and so I just picked any third party because I thought if more people voted for third parties then they'd have to take third parties seriously.

Ronda Rousey

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.