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 Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Alan Bennett

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Michael Strahan

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

Kathleen Hogan

We are proud of the commitment partners like Puget Sound Energy have made to helping Americans save energy. The Partner of the Year award recognizes partners whose efforts to promote energy-efficient products are exceptional. They have been instrumental in putting more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products into American households over the last decade.

Trevor Immelman

There are certain criteria set by the Official World Golf Rankings Board to award world ranking points in a tournament,

Bernie Mac

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

Bill Murray

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Jamie Dixon

We want our people to improve. We want them to get better. This is the most important award for us.

Charlize Theron

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

John Johnston

We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Alexandre Oliveira

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Jim Rogers

Where's a group that really deserves something? Veterans.

Jesse Segall

When it comes down to a trial, we're going to try go get people down to support him. He's one of the nicest kids ever. He deserves our support.

Bob Stoops

We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.

Cheryl Rice

We're really excited. I'm just happy for Alberta. She's worked so hard. She deserves it. She's paid her dues and she deserves it.

John Anthony

Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to.

Lily James

Ultimately, 'Cinderella' is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it.

Jodi Picoult

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.

John Dryden

She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.

Natalie Ambeuhl

Since they had to put the first score in the paper in the 50s I said that was going to come down and it has. She has worked hard and she deserves this.

Genesis Rodriguez

I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.

Trent Reznor

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.

Chuck D.

Popular radio is edgy and urban right now, so obviously programmers and TV networks aren't necessarily looking to serve the same audiences.

Carmelo Anthony

I was edgy my first two games just to get out there and start my career. You saw me settle down more than I did the first two games.

Luca Cumani

He hasn't ridden for me before but there's always a first time. The horse can get a little edgy when the jockey gets up, but he is fine on the track.

Jessica Hart

Melbourne is very sophisticated and edgy - we wear a lot of black. Things are lightening up a little bit, but truly, everything looks good in black.

Michael Workman

We are already at the top end but I think the market is a little edgy in front of the CPI number.

Ed Goble

You always are a little edgy on travel day. It's kind of a no-news-is-good-news situation.

Hilary Duff

You can be edgy without showing off your boobs.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

David Suzuki

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Hal Mumme

We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.

Mike Pomerenke

We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.

Dave Odom

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

Scooter Dunn

We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

Neal McDonough

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome.

Jeff Halpern

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

Travis Paquet

We're starting to come together. We played as a team, and I was very proud of them tonight.

Jeff Perreault

We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Edward Hall

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.