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.

We are probably 20 to 30 percent cheaper than the average view lot around the county. I'm sure that over the next six months there could be some price raising. Any lot that is bought right now, my guess would be that they'll gain 20 to 30 percent over the next one to three years.

We are looking to be more controlled. We hope to play smart, controlled games. We hope to cut down on our errors. Last year we averaged just over four a game. We want to cut that in half to two or less per game.

We are a very average team when we try to go by ourselves -- when we move the puck; we're awesome. I don't know what happened, if they see the big crowd and decide they're going to go Hollywood on us.

There are customers that will love it. My biggest concern is: Can we teach the average cook how to use it?

There are some fears now in the natural-gas market of a return to colder than average weather for the next few weeks.

We spread the wealth pretty well. This was really a special year, because we had kids that understood and were happy if they averaged eight or 10 points a game, just as long as we were 25-4 and had a shot to go far.

Where that integration exists is where the poker market is going -- the mix of celebrity and average Joes.

Louis C. K.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

Charles Krauthammer

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Bo Burnham

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

David Icke

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Edward Kennedy

In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

Edward Kennedy

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Edward Kennedy

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

Bill Nighy

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count.

Ed Young

We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals.

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.

We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

Chester Bennington

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

Charlaine Harris

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.