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.

James Valentine

We've seen upside in all the railroad stocks over the next year, ... remains the cheapest railroad in our universe.

Jim Moore

Left to their own devices, people will choose the mode that's cheapest to them not just in out-of-pocket costs but in time costs.

Gautam Adani

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

T. Boone Pickens

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

Janet Fallen

We will comparison shop for you. If you want something, we will find the cheapest product out there. We recently recommended lap-top computers for a client.

John Hart

I thought it was great and it was a steady job but it was cheap, the cheapest damn job I ever had, ... But I liked working and I liked acting. I liked the weekly check; even if it wasn't so hot, it was good to have. I was paid a little over Guild minimum, which wasn't very much.

John Kadar

We really search for the cheapest price. Now we are searching around daily for the cheapest pump just like the rest of the public.

Dave Mills

We haven't raised our rates since 2000. Our most exciting and cheapest trips in 2006 last four days and cost $995. It's high water for adults in shape only, no kids.

Jalal Rumi

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

John Felmy

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

Toshizo Tanaka

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Mark Dooley

Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market.

Shannon LaRocque

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

Tim Ehrgott

We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom.

Richard Lee

What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

Brian Macy

We started out the game very tentative. They played some good defense to start with ... our cuts were slow, we didn't play very well.

Marty Parkes

What they're shooting for is what Mike called a visible and playable difference between those two cuts of rough.

Parker Gemmell

We knew we would have to play tough defense from our first game at their place. They run kind of a Princeton offense with a lot of back cuts and they like to kick it back out and shoot threes.

Ann Miller

We know what gets cuts first. It's going to be the maintenance of the buildings. It's going to be professional development for teachers, and after that, it's going to go right on down the line to school staffing.

Tommy Thompson

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

Anthony Stone

There are two types of oats on the market. Traditional, which is ground either course, fine or medium or the modern method, which is cut. This is where a machine cuts the grains into small pieces.

Jerry Jones

The expectations are we'll come up with something that will work relative to our economics. But everyone knows this cuts real deep. We're going to have to make this work in the league. We're going to have to run some tighter ships in managing our costs.

John Challenger

Layoffs are still very high, and the economy seems to be showing little sign of pulling out of the doldrums, ... These lower cuts may just mean that we aren't seeing any further dips right now -- that we're just in this kind of steady, low-wattage kind of state.

Lindy Ruff

Several of those players had very good camps, but we're limited on room. They're not easy decisions. When usually you go through the first round of cuts you're looking at second-tier guys. Some of these guys will definitely play (in the NHL).

Gayle Falkenthal

Where there is a need we will fill it.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Aidan Turner

I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Yoshinori Ohno

We want to promote understanding and fill in the gaps today or tomorrow.

David Nicholas

We have secured one cargo in January, two in February. We are looking to fill one of our two slots in March. That's the arrangement so far.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Chevy Chase

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Jeff Burton

We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.

Bruce Robinson

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

Rose George

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Mike Heimerdinger

We're about a million miles away after (Monday) night.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Ivor Heerden

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.

Bob Burns

No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Frank Adams

We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Mike Parker

Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in.

Torii Hunter

Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.

Billy Corgan

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Kayla Parker

She is someone who pumps you up when you're down. She kind of makes everyone around her play better.

William Empson

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

Dave Ramsey

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Adrian Rogers

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Gary Carter

We're 20 years older, so it's not quite going to be the same.