Quotes of Proportion - somelinesforyou

“ It makes no difference whom you vote for — the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. ”

- Gene Roddenberry

“ Beauty is our weapon against nature. By it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Eighty percent of success is showing up. ”

- Woody Allen

“ More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ”

- John Powell

“ Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ”

- Langston Coleman

“ Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. ”

- Lou Holtz

“ Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. ”

- Barbara Sher

“ life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ”

- Irving Berlin

“ The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- John Dryden

“ People are lucky and unlucky… according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does. ”

- James A. Worsham

“ One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. ”

- Jake Simmons

“ Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. ”

- Thomas Alva Edison

“ I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Only about 25 percent of our participants actively ski. ”

- Don Johnson

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

- Buckminster Fuller

“ I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. ”

- Sarah Hughes

“ Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection. ”

- Edward Streeter

“ I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ”

- Bill Walton

“ Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ”

- Dave Barry

“ There isn't anything that says he has to be in attendance 100 percent of the time,... We can't put an amount of time. He has to deliver the service that's in his contract. ”

- William Mitchell

“ All audiences should be slightly off balance. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos. ”

- Tim Page

“ We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that. ”

- John Gottman

“ Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ”

- Golda Meir
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