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.

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

David Allen

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

Dave Gahan

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

David Korten

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Chad Hurley

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Ellen Wheeler

We're introducing the show to a new generation of people who are getting their entertainment in many, many different arenas,

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Brian Bosma

There are some folks up in northern Indiana who are waiting for public opinion on this matter to be reinforced.

Shelly Grice

There are some folks sitting on the sidelines.

Charlie Adam

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Ronald McDonald

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

Brian Niceswanger

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

David Stockert

There are lots of those folks in Austin.

Melissa McHenry

We're sending all the folks we can spare.

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Bill Johnson

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Noreena Hertz

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

William Wordsworth

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Joseph Fiennes

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Rick Costa

The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.

Donna Shalala

The other thing is, I'm one of the handful of people they have that actually knows how to run something, that's an experienced administrator.

Obie Schramm

The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.

Michael Rabasca

We're honored that we played well enough to get to this point. The thing that we'll look at is that there's only a handful of teams that have been able to win back-to-back championships. I think that will weigh heavily on our mind.

Loren Thompson

Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.

Lynn Coady

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Dorn Whitmore

Only a handful said they didn't like what we were doing.

Cheryl Healton

Only a handful of states have used this money for its intended purpose.

Dan Fink

From a scientific standpoint, we are incredibly unique. There's only a handful of places, globally, that can do research like we do.

Jimmy Smith

I always hear it. I just liked the way it set up. They said Jimmy is losing a step that he can't do it anymore. It's been the story of my career. It's always been people saying I couldn't do it. I knew I could do it. You knew I could do it. There's always a handful of people.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Brad Lidge

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Oliver Luck

From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise.

Conan O'Brien

A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

David Foster

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Bill White

Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared,

Roger Clemens

When I tried the sandwich, I had to invest with Nolan Ryan in the Houston market.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Bill Watterson

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

Aja Naomi King

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Carl Sandburg

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Brenda Fassie

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Gary Pruitt

The conventional wisdom is that newspapers are dead. That's the view out there, but it couldn't be more wrong.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Bo Derek

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

Edward Snowden

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

Eazy-E

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Hermann Havermann

There are only 100-million Web pages right now in Arabic, and that's nothing. It's only 0.2 percent of the total worldwide.

Bob Ehrlich

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

Brigitte Bardot

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

Max Bukovac

We're going to produce some runs, and I would be surprised if we didn't.

Jim Thomas

With nanotechnology, you can produce steel that's 100 times stronger but six times lighter.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Tim Tebow

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Denise Albrecht

She's never been here and she doesn't realize that it will come down to her. She's about to puke.

David Berry

She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,

Foster Friess

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Birdman

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

Ben Taylor

You don't realize it at first, but it really is special to be part of something like this.

Andrew Yaracs

We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Matt Hasselbeck

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Sean Moran

We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Mike Janko

Upon death, heirs receive a step-up in basis.

Jeff Ackermann

We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal.

John Roberts

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

Mark Hatton

We play as well defensively as any team I have seen in this section in a long, long time.

Jordan Lawley

I feel like everything after sections was just extra.

Mark Johnson

We want to win every game, and Section V.

Pu Zhiqiang

This section is the most important part of the paper.

Joe Siecinski

We think we can win the section and be one of the top 10 teams in the WPIAL.

Rick LaFerriere

Our section should do very well in the WPIAL. And at the state level, our section could have two or three state champions.

Richard Morris

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.