A Quote by David Shields

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

David Shields

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David Shields
American - Author
Born: July 22, 1956

Our royalty statement has been minimal and menial. Really. We don't collect more than a per cent of a per cent of a per cent of a per cent of a per cent of a per cent of a per cent. We get maybe the seventh of 1 percent.

Liz Mitchell

We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying.

Rahul Gandhi

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Ruud Gullit

Motor racing is 99 per cent downs and one per cent ups. It's a huge challenge, as there are so many things that can go wrong.

Nigel Mansell

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

Richard Herring

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

Abhinav Bindra

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

Eric Schmidt

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

George Bernard Shaw

Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call normal. I say that must be when I am buying groceries. Or vacuuming.

Margaret Trudeau

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

Saul Bellow

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Ha-Joon Chang

There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.