Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Our German factories must be able produce at prices appropriate for export.

Maurice Cheeks

Our turnovers obviously were a big factor in losing the game. We had 14 turnovers at halftime, but our offense went astray.

Junya Tanase

Rising tension (between Iran and the West) could have an impact on oil prices and that is a negative factor for the dollar.

Eric Nicoli

Piracy in all its forms has been the major factor in this reversal but not the only factor.

Pat Buchanan

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign soil,

Gregg Popovich

Malik can play inside and out. He?s versatile. Not having him for Game 1 was a huge factor for us.

Dave Tippett

We needed for him to be good. We knew that fatigue was going to be a factor on our team and we needed him to give us a chance.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Ashley Hanewich

He (her father) figured out I'm not going to see anything on the inside and if I did, I could still turn on it. It seems like that's just what teams do because they figure you are weaker hitting the outside pitch.

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Mandrell

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Aldous Huxley

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Peter Goldman

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Floreen

We need more options, not fewer. We need them to increase trains and hours to get people out of their cars.

Ken Matthews

We never taught him to sit. We spend hours teaching them to stand (for show).

Jason Isbell

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Bill Burr

You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

Andy Anderson

That's the type of response parents need. They need to know what's going on now, not three hours from now.

Susan Backman

Residents can see the improvements made to the outside of the buildings.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

F. Schumacher

I was on the outside and I tried and there was no opportunity.

Tom Zbikowski

I think to the outside people, it's not what they expected, but it is what we expected.

Terry Wallace

I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Michael Robinson

It is expensive, but as long as it's efficient, we'll spend the money.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Sam Huber

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

Wally Herger

Whatever is in Medicare, ... we're not going to spend it.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

John Faso

I would look to put state spending on a diet.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.