Cent Quotes

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?

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

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.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

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.

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.

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

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.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

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.