“When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just have to play through it. I've never really been injured before.” TryingLittlesSometimesPlayBabyPercentConferencesFatigueInjured Author:Bobby Jones
“Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.” PeopleThinkingMenSometimesHandsUsedGuyGamesInterestingKnownDogPercentCamerasNotesPhotographWorking ItRaysThrill Author:William Wegman
“Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.” FeelsYearsSometimesLastsSongThreeEasyPercentThree YearsEludeElude You Author:Stephan Jenkins
“I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.” IfsSometimesDoneTogetherHoursPercentCamerasLazyTonightHeelsBrasI Am PrettyGet It Together Author:Amy Schumer
“Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.” ChildrenSometimesTogetherAmericaForceFiguresPeriodsHighestPercentLaborMythContraryTraditionalDestroyedHouseholdNormBrutesBrute ForceIndustrializationExtended FamilyHigh Points Book:The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap Source: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
“I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'” LooksSometimesTogetherFiveLuckyPercentDinnerCooksRecipesNinetyMexicanSupermarketsSo LuckyMexican Food Author:Salma Hayek
“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.” PeopleWellsStillsTwoEndsSometimesBodyEarthWaterWalksCommonGreaterDiseaseNormalSixPercentAreasDistanceEnvironmentalSurfaceEastChainsPondsParasitesStewCholeraEast AfricaTyphoidDysentery Author:Marq de Villiers
“Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.” ThinkingTryingIdeasSometimesActorsSoundLinesApproachSmartPercentSellsComing OutGearsLike Something Author:David Gordon Green
“Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.” PeopleMadeSometimesFilmSuccessfulPercentPercentages Author:George Lucas
“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.” ThinkingYearsSometimesLastsCan DoRealizingSimpleTeachTeachingStudentsPercent Author:Bruce Molsky
“Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.” SometimesFallStrongPercentFalling Apart Author:Lauren Mayberry
“Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.” IfsSometimesRunningEffortHugePercentDifficultyImpactDetailsMinors Author:Michael Schumacher
“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsLongTwoSometimesTechnologyHavensWindTomorrowPercentDecidedCongressNonsenseTwo YearsElectricityNew TechnologyGridsLagWind Power Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.” YearsDoeSelfSometimesProblemPartyExerciseMembersPercentCriticismAbuseGood ThingsAddressesCriticizeCommunistAssemblyAdministrativeCommunist PartySelf Criticism Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.” WritingYearsSometimesSongPercentExtras Author:Skrillex
“I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.” MenYearsSometimesWholeWiseNicePercentPercentagesGet RealReally NiceBenignTumorsWhole YearHecklersHeckling Author:Godfrey
“Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.” SometimesDonePercentWork OutStoresNailsNinetyGroceriesGrocery StoresNails Done Author:Lindsey Vonn
“The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight years. Every study that has actually examined people who have used phones for 10 years or more, and is well designed, finds a 50 percent to an 800 percent increased risk. So that is why the Israelis, the Finnish, the French governments have all issued warnings.” PeopleYearsWellsSometimesGovernmentUsedBrainStudyFiveRiskPercentAveragePhonesCancerEightFive YearsWarningFinnishCellphoneBrain Cancer Author:Devra Davis
“Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent...” IfsSometimesEnjoyPercent Author:Tom Hanks
“80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.” WorldTwoCountrySometimesStatesPurposeCoursesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryArmsPercentThirdsTradeFavorsDevelopingDictatorPromotingBansSellersBuyersArmamentDeveloping Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.” PeopleThinkingLittlesSometimesShowsMightRunningNightCoursesFiveHeardFrontsChangedTenPercentPerformancesEvery NightTheatricalDelivery Author:Don Rickles
“And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.” PeopleSometimesAmericaRealizingPovertyPercentPersistentCountyRural America Author:Tom Vilsack
“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.” WarSometimesMatterStatesThreeUnitedUnited StatesSkyTenLimitsNormalSixPercentHundredConcernTwentiesProfitEightTwelveCentsSixtyEighteenRacketSky Is The LimitWar Time Book:War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.” PeopleThinkingSometimesKidsParentFiguresQuietAuthoritySmartPercentAdultsAssumingRaisedWorthyIdiotRespectfulInteractingOlder PeopleBe RespectfulAuthority Figures Author:Mindy Kaling