Famous Quotes & Sayings

With McDonald's you get a minor dividend of 1 percent and right now, where it's trading, around a 13, 14 price-to-earnings ratio, it is very reasonable, ... A little bit below the S&P average at this point.

We take an average year's consumption and divide it by 12 so all payments are equal and people can budget their gas bill.

John Hull

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

He's a three-sport performer. He plays for me, then averages like 20 points in basketball and was a state-qualifier in the hurdles for the track team. He's impressive.

He's going through that natural period where people want to nitpick the very few negatives he may have instead of extolling all his positives, ... And in a little over 31 minutes a game he averages 18 and 8. He comes to work every day. He's totally selfless. Yet some want to badger the guy about whatever perceived shortcomings he has. I find that unfortunate because if they spent half the time looking at all his positives it would be a much better story.

The pace of average hourly earnings continues to rise at just a tepid pace leading me to believe that this overall report is a very monetary policy-friendly report.

Maria Cantwell

There is an average of over 500 oil spills a year on Alaskan North Slope, and over 4,000 spills in the last 10 years. Let's not pollute one of the great last refuges of America,

There is an average of 50,000 items in the supermarket. We can only eat 14 to 16 foods daily.

George Osborne

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.

Anton LaVey

But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.

We meet twice a week and average 13 people. I'm very pleased with that.

We looked at companies that got the most A's and the most F's. What we do is we collect on an A to F scale and so we averaged those reports together and a company's rating is an average of those reports.

We made too many mistakes. You can't turn the ball over 20 times and make 8 assists -- half our average -- and win in a final.

HSDPA promises the highest average speeds to date.

I think were doing good; its a good, solid sale, ... There are a lot of good horses, so if you have less than average of what the stallion is throwing, its a tough market for those people, but if you have average or above, its a strong market.

I think we played an average game. It wasn't great and it wasn't horrible, but we definitely didn't play to the level that we are capable of playing.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall we played better tonight. We have a lot of energy. We did a better than average job of following the game plan. We could have had the game in regulation. We just weren't able to get it.

I thought our whole defense was average at best at every position. There were some guys I thought played really well, but I'm not going to name any names.

I think we saw a taste of what could happen in July, when a brief and moderate correction caused this fund to lose nearly 7 percent, about twice the loss suffered from the average conservatively managed large-cap fund.

I think what's driving it is Helena is still recognized as a value in the western Montana markets. When you compare Helena to Kalispell or Missoula or Bozeman or any other nice place to live in Montana, it's relatively speaking still a good buy, which says the average could continue to go up for the next three or four years.

It got borderline embarrassing. They're a very average team, and they made us look like we didn't even belong in the league.

It had to be done. In North County, we have a crisis with a lot of boys and girls, and their families, not having a place to lay their heads down at night. The average age of the people were served last year was 8.

Drake Bell

I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.

He had some success when he was at Wisconsin. I think they averaged like 450 yards of total offense. Obviously, Philadelphia, he had success there. That's about as much of him I know. Obviously, I want to get a chance to know him. The main thing for me is to get the playbook and get ready to roll.

He is calling for 17 tropical storms and in an average season we get 10. He is calling for nine hurricanes and the average is six. And five major hurricanes is what he is calling for and the average is just over two.

He (his brother Scott) told me this summer you might average 23, but you don't have anything to show for it like a sectional. So I don't care if we score five or 50 as long as we win.

He has some good days and some average days.

He had a great tournament. He more than doubled his average in each game.

Tom Daschle

Forty-three percent of their tax benefits go to people earning an average of $900,000, ... We want to provide a cut for families that pay only payroll taxes, who would not be helped under the president's plan.

For those who monitor market charts, a pull-back to around 6,400-6,500 points, or the 72-day moving average for the benchmark index, seems increasingly possible.

Globally, there's a 62% average tariff on agricultural products. In some countriesàit's more than 100%.

I get hate e-mail on the average every three minutes.