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  • I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

    Past   Ninety Nine   Doe  
    "Theatrenow! Interview With Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Designer". "Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow! " with Anne Hamilton, theatrenow.wordpress.com. December 17, 2011.
  • Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

    Beautiful   Time   Sorry  
    William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”
  • Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  • Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

    Baseball   Skills   Bats  
  • Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?

    Hate   Holiday   Eye  
  • So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

    Running   What If   Three  
  • A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

    Lonely   Rain   Past  
    Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
  • Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

    Men   Water   Liberty  
  • Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

    Film   Ninety   Mediocre  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.

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

    tom holt (1991). “flying dutch”
  • Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.
  • Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  • 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 per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

    Real   Knowing   People  
  • Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.

  • The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.

    Mistake   Men   Talking  
  • Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to take two ninety-minute classes in a row. It’s incredible that I didn’t die from a blunt injury to the back of my head from slipping on my own pool of sweat.

    Crazy   Class   Sweat  
  • One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to penalize anti-social acts; actually their aim is to penalize heretical opinions. At least ninety-five Americans out of every 100 believe that this process is honest and even laudable; it is practically impossible to convince them that there is anything evil in it. In other words, they cannot grasp the concept of liberty.

    Business   Believe   Law  
    "Liberty and Democracy". Baltimore Evening Sun (April 13, 1925) as quoted in "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit" edited by Terry Teachout (p. 35), 1994.
  • Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

    Acting   Needs   Suits  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'

    Book   Kids   Thinking  
    "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". Interview with Lev Grossman, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.
  • I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

    Stupid   Wings   Long  
    Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press
  • Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.

    Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”
  • Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

  • When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

    Regret   Mind   Midnight  
  • I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

    Mother   Father   Lost  
  • It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?" "Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks." "Ducks?

    Dirty   Thinking   Ducks  
    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1972, Simon and Schuster
  • Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

  • We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

    "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
  • The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

    Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.117, University of Chicago Press
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