Famous quotes containing the word percent:
“Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They dont realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a nice air-conditioned office.”
—Beatrice Alice Hicks (19191979)
“Hes got a fifteen percent metabolism with an overactive thyroid and a glandular affectation of about three percent. With a one percent mentality. Hes what we designate as the Crummy Moronic type.”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)