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.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Rudi Giuliani

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

Ron Holt

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' factor. A great new building that excites people but doesn't take away from the neighborhood.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Al Neuharth

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Chogyam Trungpa

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

David Storey

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

Carter G. Woodson

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Jack Crumbliss

We're going to get better. We're eventually going to get over the hump.

Zig Ziglar

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid morefor what we do.

Linda Stephenson

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

Jim Carlin

With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.

Keke Palmer

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

Throughout human history there have been those who seek power through fear and mass murder, ... But eventually all of them - every one - has fallen.

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Paula Pearson

We've all been looking forward to this match all season as we do every year.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Ross Randall

We struggled this week with the weather. We are looking forward to getting back and practicing to get ready for our next tournament.

Hani Durzy

We are looking forward to Wednesday and having our day in front of the Supreme Court.

Bruce Allen

We are looking forward to using the new CBA parameters to improve our team.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

Dean Fabrizio

We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Michiel Huisman

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

Carlton Cuse

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

Kim Maher

(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.

Gayle Lynds

Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

Warren Littlefield

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

Andrea Walker

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,

Randy Pausch

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Al Lewis

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Al Boliska

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Penelope Mitchell

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Heather Casey

My three-year-old is talking better, and people have noticed my twins communicating better.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Doug Bruno

You know, I noticed that she went smaller, but I don't think it made a difference.

Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Al Gore

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Andre Agassi

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

John Milton

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

Frank Ocean

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

George Soros

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

Garry Wills

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Billy Collins

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

Mike Hill

I think it went really well. The word is slowly spreading. We're starting to get more people.

Dawn Staley

This team is the most undisciplined team that we've had. They're just really undisciplined. They're not a team. This is the first team that's not a team, so we're going to get to the problem. We'll slowly but surely get to it, but we'll get to it.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Chuck D.

if they don't think he can play shortstop then they should think about trading him.

Carol Kennedy

We routinely look at any unusual trading activity.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.