117 Nineties Quotes

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To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. — Shane West

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. — Camille Anna Paglia

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter. — Sayings

I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much. — Chloe Sevigny

In the ’90s, I never socialised with other players. — Stephen Hendry

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. - David Bowie

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. — David Bowie

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. — Lionel Blue

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. - Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band. — Tommy Shaw

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that. — Sherilyn Fenn

The good old days are now. — Tom Clancy

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! — Twiggy

Short Nineties Quotes

  • Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver
  • Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Lou Holtz
  • Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison
  • One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. — John Stuart Mill
  • War is ninety percent information. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. — Henry A Kissinger
  • Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion. — Shiv Khera
  • Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
  • Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
  • Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Nineties Image Quotes

Nineties quote Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.

90s Life Quotes

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers Paris and the French in the 90s, and through these encounters, discovers herself. — Danielle Arbid

I don't get into the favorite songs thing, because so many speak to different parts of my life, but the music in the '90s is just unbeatable. — Brandy Norwood

Nineties quote Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. — Cynthia Kenyon

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down. — Michael Weatherly

I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s. — Ed Robertson

Nineties quote Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five perce
Two percent of the people think, three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than Think.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb. — Scott Weiland

90s Show Quotes

There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show. — Monica Potter

I wanted to be an artist, even at the age of 15, and people used to laugh at me. It was the late '90s, the time of pop stars and navel-dancing, where you were showing your midriff. I wanted to be a real singer. — Duffy

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen attended a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City this week. Hillary told them, 'Good luck with the reboot of your '90s show.' And they said, 'Thanks. Good luck with yours.' — Jimmy Fallon

Nineties quote Creativity is one percent inspiration, and ninety nine percent caffeination.
Creativity is one percent inspiration, and ninety nine percent caffeination.

But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years. — Phil Lesh

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s. — Phil Lesh

In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York. — Nan Goldin

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s. — Joe Eszterhas

I don't know what it was like in the '80s. I don't really even know what it was like in the '90s, because I was broke and wasn't selling any art. I was in a few group shows, but I didn't have a gallery until 2006. — Wade Guyton

All my money comes from show money. You might get your deals, your advancements to do your album, but it wasn't in great abundance. Everybody's money in the '90s came from doing shows. That's a whole lot of show money, and that's it. — Redman

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around. — Elizabeth Peyton

Ninety-nine Quotes

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen — Cecil Rhodes

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. — Willie Nelson

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. — Edgar Allan Poe

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. — Fernando Sabino

Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God...you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you? — Walter Levine

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. — Albert Einstein

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors. — Sandor Katz

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong. — Caryl Churchill

You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for. — Richard Yates

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. — Daniel Libeskind

Ninety-five Quotes

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race. — Benito Mussolini

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks. — James Clear

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work. — Anton Chekhov

A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. — Simon Wiesenthal

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo. — Jodie Foster

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. — Lou Holtz

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness. — Gerald Zaltman

Ninety Eight Quotes

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. — Lily Tomlin

Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart. — Cathy Ferguson

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! — Dr. Seuss

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It is not. And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! — Dr. Seuss

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich. — Russell Conwell

I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws. — Viktor Yushchenko

Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me. — Nancy Pelosi

The product will remain basically unknown until seven percent of the population knows it. As soon as seven percent of the population knows about that product, on the next day, about ninety-eight percent of the population knows about it. — Drunvalo Melchizedek

Arnold Schwarzenegger said it best: "Your son is sick. Ninety-eight doctors give you one diagnosis, two doctors give you another. Who are you going to go with?" Well, why would it be the conservative position to go with the two? That's not conservative, that's crazy. — Thomas Friedman

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More Nineties Quotes

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out. — Gordon B. Hinckley

There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. — Lewis Grizzard

And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control. — Paul Tudor Jones

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. — Carl Sandburg

I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery. — J.A. Redmerski

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. — Steven Wright

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. — Tug McGraw

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable. — Gabe Newell

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties. — Jacob M. Appel

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties. — Jerry Saltz

We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie. — Joycelyn Elders

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety. — Richard Pryor

Ninety percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world but by the way your brain processes the world. — Mo Gawdat

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. — Yogi Berra

One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral. — William Segal

Ninety percent of the obstruction in the airway occurs around the tongue, soft palate, and tissues around the mouth. The smaller the mouth is, the more the tongue, uvula, and other tissues can obstruct airflow. — James Nestor

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds. — Neal Stephenson

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