#percent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #percent




More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.


John Shadegg


#american citizen #assimilation #becoming #citizen #home

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.


Ted Williams


#fifty #fifty percent #hitting #percent #shoulders

The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the United States and other large land masses. Now while that may not be 100% accurate, it is at least 88% accurate. Actually, the last sentence itself might not have been 100% accurate, but I’m 88% sure it was. Maybe I should just brush up on fractions and percentages before making statements that are liable to hurt the funeral industry, because if birthdays aren’t killing people then it’s bad for the mortality business. And if you can’t trust somebody to die, then you can’t trust somebody. But I’m somebody you can trust. I’m at least 88% trustworthy, at least 88% of the time. 



Jarod Kintz


#accurate #birthday #death #die #fractions

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.


Warren Buffett


#class-warfare #economics #economics-greed #economics-money #inequality

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.


Hank Aaron


#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.


Sherman Alexie


#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.


Fred Allen


#advertising #advertising agency #agency #commission #confusion

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.


Robert Ballard


#better #country #fifty #fifty percent #jurisdiction

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.


Kirstie Alley


#been #i #i can #last #last year

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.


Gregg Allman


#agent #apiece #audacity #booking #had