Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

Dominique Wilkins

I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.

Dick Armey

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Dexter Holland

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Robert T. Bakker

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Josh Fox

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Charles Bennett

This light is just invaluable. It's really the only fossil we have from that time.

Linda Watson

I see this as very important because of America's heavy reliance on fossil fuels.

Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Angel Mata

If it's down a lot (people are investing in it). Everyone says this can't be sustained, but that's what fuels the markets.

Lydia Lunch

I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.

Taylor Wilson

My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Clara Furse

This all fuels growth on SETS ... it's a secular story.

Chauncey Billups

Any time something like that happens, it just fuels our fire. Good luck other team.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

The Talmud

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

Sathya Baba

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Aubrey O'Day

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Scott Smith

When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S.,

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Clint Bolick

The only possible sanction would be a cutoff of Title 1 funds, and that would be a very significant sanction.

Ernest Rutherford

The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.