Top 75 Ninety Quotes

Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.

Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze. They don’t see themselves anymore.

People don’t like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

Ninety percent of the time when I’m working, there’s this very palpable sensation that I’m doing everything wrong and should just give up.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

I’m not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you’re ninety?

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there’s no music.

Ninety percent of the time, you’re going to hear no. It took me seven years to make ‘Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored.’ Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains – and one million mountains in the world are empty.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It’s very sad.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Ninety percent of the students take the ‘preferred lender.’ Why? Because that’s the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules – the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

I’ve come to learn that you could read through one hundred things, ninety of them could be positive, those ten negative ones are the ones you’re going to remember, that are going to stand out.

Right now, I’m hankering for new adventures… Ninety percent of the time I’m having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I’m wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn’t throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

Ninety percent of the general public aren’t gangstas, so all of the rappers aren’t going to be gangstas.

Life’s too short to be super conservative but it’s also too short to make it any shorter. I don’t plan on dying early, but at the same time I don’t plan on playing it so safe that I’ll live to ninety.

The slogan was ‘Don’t trust anyone over thirty’. Sixty years later the slogan became, ‘Don’t trust anyone over ninety’.

Ninety per cent of the times, filming is a cakewalk. You start it, shoot it and release it without any major hassles. Then comes along one film that gets stuck or faces unusual problems.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I’m reading or watching a show.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

Ninety percent of the time, I’m wearing imaginary people’s clothing. I don’t feel a huge pressure to go out and, like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

Don’t get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things that footballers have but you get to a Premier League level because you have something inside you and you can play. Ninety per cent of that is self-pride.

Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That’s what motivates me.

Ninety percent of the time, I’m sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, ‘Wow, we’re not in a pub in London anymore.’

The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn’t do anything.

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it’s not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative – it’s putting the theoretical into the practical world.

Ninety percent of the people who come to my stores have no idea I don’t work with leather.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I’ve been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

Instagram is just a highlight reel… Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we’re really boring.

Ninety percent of people’s nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

To combat the monotony of gym workouts, I started playing soccer. I looked at workouts as training sessions. My soccer training includes squats, pushups, resistance-band work, and sprints. Ninety minutes of running became part of my love of the game rather than a chore.

Ninety percent of the comic books I’ve written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

I consider myself a good layman’s cook. Ninety percent of the time, I’m successful with what I set out to make, and I can improvise. Yes, I own a mandoline. Yes, we have a Vitamix.

Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing… is also a ticking time bomb of frustration… You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren’t patting me on the back anymore, sayin’, ‘Good job on the sobriety! Go get ’em!’

What’s the difference? Ninety million or 80 million. You still can’t spend it all.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we’ve helped them avoid those mistakes.