Cent Quotes - page 12

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him. (Alan Dershowitz)
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct. View quote
Stieg Larsson
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly they underwrite it with their lives. View quote
Henry Miller
They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself. View quote
David Ogilvy
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. View quote
Morrissey
My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do. View quote
Gerard Way
I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. View quote
Will Ferrell
They go off to sea for nine months, they're sick half the time, bad things happen to them, they see others die. Then they come back home and they have not a cent in their account. The way it ruins these men in their very spirit is a crime that's horrific to see. And it's hard to capture that in writing because wage theft, that term, is so boring. But on the ocean, it's so pervasive and so ruinous that I would put it up there on par with putting men in an oven and cooking them slowly. View quote
Ian Urbina
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's Liberty teeth and keystone under Independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizens' firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this Land knows firearms and more than 99 99/100 per cent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference and they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. When firearms go all goes, therefore we need them every hour. (George Washington)
This, then, is the tyranny of the State; it denies, to both woman and man, the right to earn a living, and grants it as a privilege to a favored few who for that favor must pay ninety per cent toll to the granters of it. View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score. View quote
Phil Brown (footballer)
It's hard to say how long he'll be out but he's 100 per cent doubtful for the weekend, that's for sure. View quote
Phil Brown (footballer)
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. View quote
Jon Bon Jovi
My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well. View quote
Marc Anthony
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. View quote
Bill Bryson
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. View quote
Jack Vance
I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know. View quote
Jeffrey Archer
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. View quote
Jeffrey Archer
Make love to every woman you meet if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment. (Arnold Bennett)
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. View quote
Luther Burbank
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them. View quote
Jello Biafra
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star. View quote
Martin Rees
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax. View quote
Alan Sugar