Cent Quotes - page 9

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times. (Andrew Denton)
Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted. View quote
Antony Garrett Lisi
You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you. View quote
Archie Panjabi
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. View quote
Archie Shepp
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. View quote
Arthur Smith
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. View quote
Agnes Smedley
That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice. View quote
Bill Klem
If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives. View quote
Bjorn Lomborg
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. View quote
Brenda Ueland
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. View quote
Bryn Terfel
We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again. (Ben E. King)
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. View quote
Campbell Newman
I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate. View quote
Cynthia Kenyon
It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done. View quote
Danica McKellar
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon. View quote
Earl Sweatshirt
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. View quote
Erez Lieberman Aiden
Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today. View quote
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. View quote
Ed McBain
Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass. View quote
Evan Davis
Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent. View quote
Francis Maude
The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With the grand opportunities all around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent. p. 32. (George W. Plunkitt)
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. View quote
George Wald
For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it. View quote
Giuliana Rancic
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself. View quote
Gail Porter
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. View quote
Greg LeMond