“Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.” FirstsMaySaidStatesLastsAmericaNightBlackPresidentUnitedUnited StatesToo MuchHeardPercentVoteDemocratBarackSenatorsUnited States Of AmericaHistoricLast NightJimmyCarterJack Kennedy Author:Jon Stewart
“After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.” WayFeelsShouldWritingYearsStillsEndsCoursesPayToo MuchTenPercentAgentsMore MoneyClients Author:Roger Zelazny
“Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?” MenWantAsksToo MuchTenPercentMen And WomenEvery ManCurse Book:Patty Jane's House of Curl Source: Patty Jane's House of Curl
“I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.” ThinkingWantFeelsLooksMadeActionThreeToo MuchPercentShouldersPreparationConsiderationNinety Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.” PeopleCompanyEconomyFiveToo MuchMediaHealthyPercent Author:Ted Turner
“I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.” WayTryingTwoEnergyGreaterToo MuchPercentEightExpensiveNinetyHustleNinety Eight Author:Orson Welles
“I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.” PeopleIfsLooksChildrenHardReasonTodayEarthNightCertainBornToo MuchBabyBirthDrinkThousandPercentHundredAccidentsAliensFlatteringBirth Control Author:Jodi Picoult