“That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.” GivingFeelsStillsShowsFeelingsJoyPercentStonesExciting Author:Mike McCready
“We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.” NeedsHas BeensCountryEnergyNaturalQualityAirSeriousDemandBenefitsPercentPlantGasNatural GasPower PlantsAir Quality Author:Gale Norton
“A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.” AblePayOfficeBenefitsPercentBudgetsReportsJune Author:Grace Napolitano
“I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.” PercentLeavingBillionsHonestlyLeaving MeNever RegretMetallica Author:Jason Newsted
“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.” IfsThinkingFeelsEndsEnjoyWeekOne DayPercentIdealsThirdsDefinitionsMiserableUrgesWhere You Are Author:Jo Nesbo
“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.” PeopleFeelsHugePercentPressureTownsClothingsImaginaryNinety Author:Lucas Neff
“It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.” PeopleRunningFacesTaxesPercentInstitutionsDebtDeficitStraight Face Author:Richard Neal
“Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.” CareLastsWinningTakenFivePlansGreatnessRepublicanPercentAssumingDivinityRollingMomentumZealot Author:Keith Olbermann
“With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.” LostLeadershipPercentCongressApprovalNormRatingLost FaithApproval RatingGridlock Author:Ron Fournier
“Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDifferencesPolicyLessonsPercentElectionCriminalsRecallsOffenseWisconsin Author:Martin O'Malley
“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.” PeopleIfsYearsDoePercentTownsNewspapersPrintSurviving Book:Oliphant's Anthem Source: Oliphant's Anthem
“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.” WantHas BeensMadeStatesDifficultUnitedUnited StatesSupportPercentMajorityJewIsraelMade ItSenate Author:J. William Fulbright
“Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.” PercentProfitJimmyJimmy Stewart Author:Alan Ladd
“Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.” WorldTogetherAdvicePercentWorking TogetherClose FriendsBest Advice Author:Brian Littrell
“According to Gallup, Obama has already lost support among Jewish voters, down from 78 percent to 68 percent. If Romney shows that he is genuinely committed to Israel and that Obama is not, he'll make further inroads.” IfsShowsLostSupportPercentCommittedIsraelVotersRomney Author:David Limbaugh
“I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.” IfsSufferingPercentCommit Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.” PercentProgramExtrasSparesSpare Time Author:John L. Phillips
“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingPersonsRealCharacterElementsPercentDeserveTrialsWitnessReal PersonGive 100 Percent Author:Pauley Perrette
“One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.” GivingReasonResponsibilityAudiencePercentTheaterFiftyThings I Love Author:William Petersen
“25 percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. 34 percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.” WorldResultsOpinionFiveFourProductsPercentTwentiesBrandsPostsThirtyLinksUsersTwenty FiveBloggers Author:Erik Qualman
“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.” FirstsHas BeensFallCausesHalfGrowingProductsColdOfficePercentRateSignificantBudgetsAnalysisGrossDeficitTurkeysCliffsReductionRecessionsAnnualsGross Domestic ProductCold Turkey Author:Christina Romer
“I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.” KnowsGivingCountryDesireStrongPercentBillsIncomeGatesGiving BackPledgeBuffettWarren Buffet Author:David Rubenstein
“If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.” IfsTodayWinningPartyReflectionPercentWeaknessStandingLaborElectionEndureCurrentsMinistersPrimePrime MinisterPolls Author:Dennis A. Ross
“Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.” TodayCompanyEconomyPercentWorkersFiftyDividedEmploying Author:Ibrahim Rugova
“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.” WritingI CanHardBitsPercentOriginalsSeventies Author:Mike Rutherford
“Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.” ThinkingYearsDifficultPercentPressureSevenExpectedFundSeven YearsColoradoTuitionEnrollment Author:Roy Romer
“As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.” DoneInterestDifferencesMillionsInvolvedPercentRateWork DoneLoopholesBeneficiaries Author:Steven Rattner
“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.” YearsLevelsEconomyStreetsDangerousWallPercentFinancialBillionsProductiveGamblingSpeculationDeficitFees Author:Bernie Sanders
“I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.” PeopleCountryStatesWholeHumorFunnyAmericaSidesComedyPercentFolksTraveled Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.” BlackInterestCommunityGrowing UpGrowingPercentNineNinetyNinety NineBlack Community Author:David Sanborn
“We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.” KnowsWantBelieveChildrenCountrySufferingKnow HowPercentTreatmentAdhd Author:David Satcher
“I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?” ThinkingKnowsRealMomentsProcessDecisionPercentUnderstoodArtisticSeatsPantsIntuitiveArtistic Process Author:George Saunders
“Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.” ThinkingHandsBigsPresidentDifferencesStruggleOrdinaryPercentCapacityShoesPresident ObamaRomney Author:Ken Salazar
“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.” PeopleBelieveFactsShowsJobsMediaTelevisionPercentAverageProfitCustomersNeighborhoodFewerTwelveGood JobEightyMarginsSurveysProfit Margin Author:L. Neil Smith
“If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.” IfsThinkingTwoEnoughUseSocialCausesChurchSecurityPercentFoundationCharityChecksWealthySocial SecurityTanksYour FavoriteGood CausesSynagogue Author:Mark Skousen
“I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.” IfsNeedsHeartCountryAmericaValuesPoorStruggleRichFineMessagesPercentConcernedSafetyConservativeSafety NetConservative Values Author:Mitt Romney
“I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.” KnowsHardGovernmentChoicesPiecesCarWillingIndustryRepublicanPercentRateCome UpRelatedCashUnemploymentFederal GovernmentRevivalBankruptcyMichiganBipartisanDelegationBailoutsUnemployment RateAuto IndustryWarranty Author:Fred Upton
“In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.” EarthHumanityGrowthTermGrowingBuddhismPercentConsequencePopulationDecadesCrowdedAurasPopulation Growth Author:Frederick Lenz
“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.” ArtDifferentTurnsOpinionPercentArgumentUnstableDifferent Opinions Author:Jerry Saltz
“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.” IfsYearsLooksMadeCountryCharacterAbleLastsPovertyEconomyProgressGenerationsExampleGrewPercentEastIndianAsian1960sPhenomenalAsian Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.” ShouldYearsI CanStatesAbleAmericaInterestWalksUnitedUnited StatesPercentObligationBest ThingsReservesUnited States Of AmericaFederal Reserve Author:Andrew Tobias
“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.” LongWarJobsAmericaLeftTermTaxesOfficePercentGainsRateLong TermEldersCapital Gains Author:Andrew Tobias
“About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.” LyingOpinionPercentCyberspaceHearsay Author:David Tang
“The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.” PeopleReasonGonePercentRateQuittingUnemploymentDiscouragedRecessionsUnemployment Rate Author:Jim Talent
“It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.” NeedsBookHardEasyWorryWrittenPercentGood BookFinishingEasy To GetFinishing It Author:Laini Taylor
“I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.” IfsMeanUsedPiecesMajorsPercentEightLegislation1960sFilibuster Author:Tom Udall
“Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.” ImportantRealCountrySchoolSupportResearchPercentStressThreatDefenseEnormousBudgetsDepartmentEngineeringFunding Author:Charles M. Vest
“Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.” CountryMembersPercentEuropeAccountsDebtMediumsZoneGreeceEuro Author:Evangelos Venizelos
“Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.” LittlesLife IsDiesCausesChancePercentScaredReleaseOperationsSurgery Author:Billy West