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.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Jeff Kinney

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Sy Montgomery

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Byron Dorgan

We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.

Eric Mabius

I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every moment that you have here feels like the last moment in the world, because you've only had a handful of whatever those moments are.

P. J. Harvey

Museums covet his works. They're hard to find. They're expensive when they do find them. And they're often an embarrassing gap in the canon for museums that don't have them.

Mallory Ortberg

My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.

Megan Follows

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

Raj Sharma

Overall results indicate continued solid execution in a tough environment where Canon continues to outpace its competitors.

Thorstein Veblen

Servants should not only show a servile disposition, but it is quite as imperative that they should show a trained conformity to the canons of conspicuous subservience.

Jessica Valenti

I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.

Rhys Ifans

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

Thomas Moran

The color of the Great Canon itself is red, a light Indian Red, and the material sandstone and red marble and is in terraces all the way down.

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Jan Mills

West Lafayette has been recognized as having the lowest city property tax and recognized for helping the Indiana community grow.

Austen Arnaud

We were trying to do too much at times. Fort Dodge wants to play an up-tempo game and push it, and we kind of got sucked into that. We were forcing things. We need to do a better job of sticking to our stuff and doing what we want to do.

Arthur Eddington

Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.

Jim Hall

When the name is a punch line in a Saturday Night Live skit, you got problems, ... I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Cheech Marin

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

Steven Landry

We are looking for a co-star that has a real passion for Dodge, Dodge trucks and HEMI engines.

Gary Swenson

Newton and Fort Dodge will be good. I think everyone will be OK.

Brody Jenner

If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

Vin Scully

I would think that right now the mound at Dodger Stadium is the lonliest place in the world.

George Murphy

Just like those innovations, the 2007 Dodge Nitro will reinvigorate its segment, the mid-size sport-utility market.

Charles Dickens

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.

Alain Robert

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

Al Pacino

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

David Sedaris

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Dave Barry

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

Dave Barry

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

Dave Barry

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

David Suzuki

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Dave Barry

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

David Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Nick Pisca

We started driving around together as soon as we got our licenses. We love to drive.

Elbert Hatchett

This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost the most precious thing there was to her. Her intoxication had nothing to do with that.

Mike Wittner

When you step back and put it all together, it's nice timing. It's a New Year's reminder of the geo-political factors that are driving the market higher.

Carl Edwards

It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be driving down the interstate.

Tracy Harris

When you run with those girls every day, you can't help but get better and that is what is driving them.

Bob Krueger

We want everyone to get home safely who may be impaired from driving for any reason.

Ryanne Floyd

When we were first driving through the town, I was at a loss for words. It looked like the hurricane had just come through the day before we got there. I can not even imagine what it looked like six months ago.

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Suze Orman

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Sheikh Ahmad

OPEC today produces 30.4 million bpd and there is a surplus in the market estimated at over two million barrels,

Jack Gerard

Our reserves are the world's largest, giving us, conservatively, an estimated 250-year supply.

Daniel Loeb

our worst-case estimated value of $14 per share.

Tom Stehn

It is estimated that between 10 and 19 whooping cranes have started the migration.

Sandra Wilson

We estimated about 9,000 people attended. It was an enthusiastic crowd.

Beverly Johnson

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Rudyard Kipling

Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?

Art Spiegelman

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

David Johnson

We shouldn't be doing that. We should be on our own system. But what can you do? The wells got salt in them.

Dante Alighieri

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Lord Byron

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

James Castle

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'

Harry Reid

You see some of these big homes; they look OK, ... But they've been soaking in salt water for two weeks. They're gone. They'll tear them down.

Ken Smith

The survey will be conducted from now through May, 2006.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.