„So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. — Did you mean hittin' it… or throwin' it?“

„You may want to do a little autograph trading and I understand it takes five Hoovers to get one Babe Ruth.“

—  Herbert Hoover 31st President of the United States of America 1874 - 1964

Explaining himself to a young autograph seeker as he signed his name six times; as quoted in "Hoover Elated by Swift Turn From New Deal" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1935/12/18/page/4/article/hoover-elated-dy-swift-turn-from-new-deal by Philip Kinsley, in The Chicago Tribune (18 December 1935), p. 4

„We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.“

—  Joyce Brothers Joyce Brothers 1927 - 2013

As quoted in Letting Go of Debt : Growing Richer One Day at a Time (2000) by Karen Casanova, p. 17

„I think it's my identity. Like, this is who I am. This is what I do…. Like I'm Babe Ruth, you know?“

—  Howard Stern American radio personality 1954

„What did it matter, Babe Ruth or Jersey Joe Stripp? If vector analysis was beyond me, I could still watch a ball game.“

—  Roger Kahn American baseball writer 1927 - 2020

Forrás: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 19

„When you think of natural ballplayers, only two come into mind, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays.“

—  Arnold Hano American writer 1922

As quoted in "In Willie's time, he was No. 1" http://static.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1191263.html by Rob Neyer, at ESPN, posted May 4, 2001
Sports-related

„Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, babe.
You got lucky, babe, when I found you.“

—  Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017

You Got Lucky, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Long After Dark (1982)

„The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.“

—  Bashō Matsuo Japanese poet 1644 - 1694

Matsuo Bashō, Collected Haiku Theory, eds. T. Komiya & S. Yokozawa, Iwanami, 1951 (Unknown translator)
Statements

„Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do?
For me this boardwalk life is through, babe.
You ought to quit this scene too.“

—  Bruce Springsteen American singer and songwriter 1949

"4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"
Song lyrics, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)

„If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you're likely to win?“

—  Michael Badnarik American software engineer 1954

Constitution Class

„While Babe Ruth's $80,000 in 1930 was eighty times the average U. S. income, Don Mattingly's $3.4 million in 1991 was 160 times the average.“

—  Andrew Zimbalist American economist 1947

Forrás: Baseball And Billions - Updated edition - (1992), Chapter 4, Player Performance And Salaries, p. 77.

„Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.“

—  Jodi Picoult, könyv Handle With Care

Forrás: Handle with Care

„Reporter: Do you mean to say that if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy in Egypt, that the schools in Morocco would be better, that the public clinics in Jordan would function better?Sheikh: I think so.“

—  Ahmed Sheikh Palestinian journalist 1949

Forrás: World Politics Watch http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=395, 7 December 2006.

„Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.“

—  Rachel Marsden journalist 1974

cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html. Salon.com.

„It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?“

—  Matthew Perry (actor) American actor 1969

On the end of the television program Friends – Susan Young (May 6, 2004) "Adios, amigos: ' Friends ' signs off after a decade of good times", Alameda Times-Star.

„The Flames and Canucks, this one was the toughest series of all folks. No prisoners were taken in this one. Whoa! Are they hittin’? And they’re hittin’ to hurt, I’ll tell ya. Watch these beauty hits. You better keep your head up in this series I’ll tell ya!“

—  Don Cherry ice hockey coach, television commentator 1934

In the "Flames-Canucks" segment (profiling the 1994 Western Conference Quarterfinal Series between the Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks) of the <i>Rock'Em Sock'Em Six</i> hockey highlights video.

„Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.“

—  Kazuo Ishiguro, könyv Never Let Me Go

Forrás: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 4

„&hellip; well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you &ndash; if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers &ndash; the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.“

—  Fred Brooks American computer scientist 1931

As quoted [paraphrased] from * http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1999/jw-07-toolbox.html
Java World
1999
July
Toolbox

„Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.“

—  John Cheever American novelist and short story writer 1912 - 1982

“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).

„Throwin the dice and takin all side bets“

—  Big L (rapper) American rapper 1974 - 1999