Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Farley

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Robert Kiyosaki

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Barry Eisler

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

We have seen that customers take the product out on average an extra day or two longer.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to see daily sale figures, even if they were the average sale of a Monday, for instance, over a six-month period,

Donald Wildmon

This shows the average American that he doesn't have to simply sit back and take the trash being offered on TV, but he can get involved and fight back with his pocketbook.

When you hear the stats that the average age of widowhood is 58, it's scary.

There are 64 million Gen Y buyers coming into the marketplace. We know when they come to market to buy a vehicle, new or used, they will spend on average about $15,000.

When you look at 26 pay periods on average and divide that into $70, it's really not going to be huge change in your take-home pay. But, cumulative, this will be a big chunk of change by the time 2010 rolls around. This is a $2.2 billion income tax cut.

David Eckstein

When you have a guy like (Pujols) who every single night comes out and with the lineups we've had has the average he has, the homers he has, the RBIs he has ... and plays defense the way he plays defense, that's (the MVP). It's not even a question.

This report is a serious wake-up call to the nation. If the emergency medical system gets a C- on an average day, how can it ever be expected to provide expert, efficient care during a natural disaster or terrorist attack?

There is about a 10th of a gram of feces in the average pair of underwear. You don't want to be doing your handkerchiefs with your underwear.

We run six to seven running backs all year. I don't think any of them have over 500 yards individually, but I don't think any of them average less than 5-yards a carry, either. And they all run the ball hard. If they don't, they know somebody else will.

Wes averages 20 (points) and 10 (rebounds) and tonight he only played 11 minutes and had four points.

We kept the sisters to a combined 25, and usually they average something like 45. Kris really took her out of it.

We keep saying the sky is falling -- all the policymakers have ignored us. If we don't put a large infusion of money to raise that average salary to closer to 25th in the nation, then this is just going to get more gloom and doom.

We think there's probably 300 to 400 homes somewhere in that average that may want us to demolish their house, so we'll work with those folks to do just that.

Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined?

Buzz Aldrin

why can't the average citizen? That's what I've been promoting in the last several years.

To only have 35 percent of average rainfall at this time of year is extreme.

Mike Tice

This young man averaged 1.87 (seconds) get-off in the game. Virtually, you could have a guy run free and he can't block the kick. So that's the great thing.

Michelle Perry

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We've been doing this 15 years, and we're seeing the full effects, ... We're well below the national average in loss of life and property for a community our size.

We've been really fortunate with our top lineup, No. 1, 2 and 3, the kids that are really committed to their tennis, that play tennis an average of five days a week, that really make a true commitment to this sport.

We were right around our average for our home course. A few missed shots, it could have gone either way.

We (Connecticut residents) are still better off than the average person in the United States. Our cost of living is higher here but our incomes our even higher.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

We do have average students in AP classes right now that are succeeding. They know it's more of a challenge, and they tend to strive and work a little bit harder in that class than they normally would in a Regents class.

Judie Brown

We don't believe the average American wants to see tiny, embryonic boys and girls -- children -- used as experimental material.

When people see him pitch for the first time, they see someone with average stuff, average sinker, average change, average breaking ball,

Bill Belichick

When people say they're slowing down, I don't know what games they're watching. I'd like to be able to go out and average 35 points a game.

We would not be surprised to see gold average about $460 next year.

George Brett

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.