“I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.”
Pete Carroll
“Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”
Will Rogers
“One third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two thirds provide”
“If you ignore the industrial Midwest, there is a political price to pay. Ignore one-third of the electoral votes needed to win the presidency, that's a risk you take as a party.”
Mark Brewer
“The plan is to raise one-third of the £750m before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and two-thirds afterwards. Beijing will get the excitement going - when the flame goes out, it will not be lit again until London.”
Dianne Thompson
“It is the third to be found, but the first one that has shown feathers identical to the ones in modern birds. They were probably present on some of those in the past, but the feathers weren't preserved well enough to be able to see the fine structure. On this latest one, feathers are found all over the fossil, and they are best preserved on the back edge of the forearms and hind limbs.”
Mark Norell
“In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one third of the votes.”
Max Mathurin