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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes

A. P. Herbert

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

Philip Guedalla

An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen

Steve Gibson

I'm disappointed for Steve. I know he wanted the job. I'm an Englishman and I'll reserve my judgement on that appointment.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Robert Falcon Scott

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Roger B. Taney

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Lytton Strachey

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Arthur C. Clarke

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Boyd Holbrook

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

Ann Brashares

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Adrienne Rich

Strangers are an endangered species ...

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.