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.

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Alan Mulally

We also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Harley Shaiken

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

Duane Campbell

With their combined knowledge, it's just incredible . . . I'm learning something new every day,

Bill Watkins

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Ken Davis

Make your trips count too, don't do too many short trips try to combined the trips into one longer trip.

Ted Rogers

When you're able to offer the customer a whole wide range of communications products, it's more attractive, ... The world is moving toward bundles and combined packaging, and not single products.

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Christine Baranski

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

H. Hunt

We knew what we had to do and we just kept going after them. I think we really wore them down and later on we were picking up big yards on runs.

Carmelo Anthony

We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure.

E. O. Wilson

We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure.

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

Lacey Chabert

I like to get together with my sisters and my nephews, and I try not to travel on weekends so that I can spend time with friends and family.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.