Top 1200 Ninety Nine Quotes & Sayings

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

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.

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

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

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

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

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

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

Ninety-nine percent of people who drive cars are not car experts.

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.

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.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

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.

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

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

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

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, I'm pretty laid back and relaxed, but I can get very intense quickly.

Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

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

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

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

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.

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

I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves.

Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

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

Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.

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

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

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

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

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.