A Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Energies Go One-Third Save Third Thirds Trying Two Two-Thirds Work

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Katherine Anne Porter
American - Novelist
May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980

It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

Emma Watson

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

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

Zadie Smith

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

H. L. Mencken

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Will Rogers

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

Gloria Naylor

The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.

Henry Miller

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Will Rogers

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

Jimmy Carter

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

Robert Breault

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

Gloria Steinem

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Norman Ralph Augustine

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

Robert Breault

When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective. I just make it up as I go along. It's nerve-wracking, actually. You'll be half through and not know your conclusion. You worry one of these days the ending won't come. I'll be left with only two-thirds of a novel.