The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Matsuo Bash?, Collected Haiku Theory, eds. T. Komiya & S. Yokozawa, Iwanami, 1951 (Unknown translator)Matsuo Basho
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
Billy Wilder
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f**k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
Bill Hicks
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.
Morihei Ueshiba
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
Joyce Brothers
Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.
Rachel Marsden
Basho, Matsuo
Basie, Count
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