Proportion And Percentage Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. — Rick Riordan

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things. — Meister Eckhart

The Internet is a big distraction. — Ray Bradbury

AFFIDATION (AFFIDA'TION) AFFIDATURE (AFFIDA'TURE) n.s.[from affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict. — Samuel Johnson

Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time. — Tim Allen

Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him. — Kim Vogel Sawyer

You better find out what you want in life, because that's what you're going to get! — James Kirkwood Jr.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment. — Arvid Carlsson

Many producers state without blinking that the audience wants a happy ending. They say this because up-ending films tend to make more money than down-ending films. The reason for this is that a small percentage of the audience won't go to any film that might give it an unpleasant experience. Generally their excuse is that they have enough tragedy in their lives. But if we were to look closely, we'd discover that they not only avoid negative emotions in movies, they avoid them in life. Such people think that happiness means never suffering, so they never feel anything deeply. The depth of our joy is in direct proportion to what we've suffered. Holocaust survivors, for example, don't avoid dark films. They go because such stories resonate with their past and are deeply cathartic. — Robert McKee

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body. — Annie Dillard

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability. — Ayn Rand

But you know what their real problem with me was? I never wanted to be one of them. That's what bothers bullies the most. — Michelle Hodkin