| 100% | TSELIOT | 7 | Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" |
| 78% | ELIOT | 5 | "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" writer |
| 50% | YODA | 4 | Film character who says "Named must your fear be before banish it you can" |
| 50% | YODA | 4 | Film character who says "Named must be your fear before banish it you can" |
| 41% | BOHR | 4 | Physicist who said "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it" |
| 40% | HAL | 3 | Computer who says "Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it." |
| 40% | EBERT | 5 | Critic who said "Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels" |
| 39% | HANKAARON | 9 | MLB great who said, "Play so good they can't remember what color you were before the season started" |
| 38% | EEYORE | 6 | Illustrated character who said, “We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it” |
| 37% | MRDARCY | 7 | To whom it is said, “I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry” |
| 37% | EVER | 4 | Who can come before it |
| 37% | NOAM | 4 | Chomsky who once said "You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption" |
| 36% | ECHO | 4 | It's been said before |
| 35% | IDO | 3 | It may be said before a kiss |
| 35% | COLBERT | 7 | Who said "I can't prove it, but I can say it" |
| 35% | ALI | 3 | Who said "It's not bragging if you can back it up" |
| 35% | ELIEWIESEL | 10 | Who said "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference" |
| 34% | WEST | 4 | Mae who said "To err is human, but it feels divine" |
| 33% | MAE | 3 | West who said "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful" |
| 33% | CAIN | 4 | Biblical person who says "My punishment is greater than I can bear" |
| 33% | CART | 4 | It shouldn't be put before the horse, they say |
| 33% | LISP | 4 | Someone who has it can't say it |
| 33% | CLAUSE | 6 | Grammar says it can be restrictive or not |
| 33% | WILDE | 5 | Writer who said "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood" |
| 33% | ENO | 3 | Brian who said ambient music "must be as ignorable as it is interesting" |
| 33% | MAE | 3 | West who said, "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." |
| 33% | MAEWEST | 7 | Actress who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" |
| 33% | MAE | 3 | West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it" |
| 33% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco who said "Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right" |
| 33% | BERRA | 5 | Sports great who said "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be" |