Quotation Explorer - 'Ninety-Nine'

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. - Edgar Allan Poe
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver
In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality. - Debasish Mridha
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. - Anna Jameson
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. - Ambrose Bierce
Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.more than a rounding error. - Elizabeth Kolbert
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. - Peter Marshall
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