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.

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Buddy Ebsen

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Camille Paglia

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

C. L. R. James

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Eric Foust

The other thing that killed us was that punt. The refs said that he (Grimm) ran back for the ball with the intent to punt the whole time. How's our kid supposed to know that that this guy's intention is to punt? That was the turning point in the football game.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Bryan Singer

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Steve Carell

We've already shot two episodes, and I'm going back soon to shoot a third,

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Scott Hamilton

We're shooting to have it as soon as possible.

Kerry Greenwood

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Jon Snow

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Daryll Hill

Shoot or pass. It was in between. I should have shot it, but I made a pass.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Brian Smith

We're going to go down there, turn over every stone.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.