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.'

David Cross

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

Buddy Rich

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

C. J. Cherryh

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

David H. Murdock

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

David Suzuki

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Buffalo Bill

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Carole King

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Bryan Davis

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Bryan Procter

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

Catherynne M. Valente

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

Ben Bradlee

You never monkey with the truth.

Bob Dylan

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Albert Einstein

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Alan Garner

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Aneurin Bevan

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

Alvah Bessie

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Dashiell Hammett

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Eric Schmidt

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.