Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Halse Anderson

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

David Whyte

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

David Ogilvy

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

Dan Simmons

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

Dan Quayle

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

We had a tremendous season because our players understand that basketball isn't just about one player. We have five or six guys that average between eight and 12 points each night. I'm proud to say that we don't have a player that's in the top 70 for WPIAL scoring.

We average...our average speed is probably between eight-to-ten-miles-per-hour.

We averaged one or two fish on each trip this past week, and we fished Columbia Beach and Possession Bar. Some bait finally showed off Possession.

We averaged 60 points per game this season and that was all due to getting turnovers. Our full-court press didn't hurt them at all, today. They were poised.

We averaged 19.35 tons per acre, which is about average.

We average about three a week for existing homes. Three years ago we did four all winter.

We average about $20 month from the stamp club.

We average about 125 to 150 people each show. About 70 percent of those are teens.

We average 3,500 pounds of trash per boat on a single outing. Prior to Hurricane Wilma, we pulled in 4,000 pounds of debris onto a single boat.

We average 200 dogs per weekend. Weekdays are slower.

Tommy Tuberville

We average 15-20 more plays than the NFL. We have to examine scenarios that make it better for the players and reducing the number of plays is one of them.

We believe our competitors have shown irrational exuberance with Christmas forecasts, ... We believe the average consumer is worried about higher gasoline prices, jobs and doesn't believe he will benefit from the stock market. With this climate, if you're just a 'me-too' retailer, you'll be in a world of hurt. The department stores will suffer but the discounters Wal-Mart and Target will do well.

Billy Graham

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

Eric Schmidt

To the average fan, we probably look like the underdog. They're undefeated. And most people feel that, from top to bottom, the south half of our section in tougher than the north half.

To the average fan in the stands, you see 49-0 and think we did everything right,

With CEOs receiving an average $15 million to start, and $16.5 million to finish, ... they hardly need to make any money in between.

Dick Gephardt

My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.

Francois Hougaard

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

We came away with a .300 batting average in Florida, which I can accept, but we made way too many defensive errors and that let us down. What used to be our strong point, defense, let us down. And our pitchers didn't get it done on the mound. Off the field, we wanted to do more as a team and we didn't get that accomplished either. That will be different in the future.

Larry Murphy

We calculated it three different ways so nobody can complain. We did it by average price, by median price and then average price per square foot. The reason for price per square foot is if someone goes into a ZIP code and builds 800 or 1,000 condominiums where they traditionally have 2,300-square-foot single-family homes, we didn't want that number to be skewed.

We often see price increases in January. What's particularly troubling for consumers is that the average price for the first month of 2006 is starting at a much higher level than it did a year ago.

We painted all the buildings wild colors two years ago, and we think it looks pretty good. Last year, we had the schoolchildren paint crazy stuff on the tables. We use everybody, young and old, and probably average about 45 people every Saturday from January on.

David Rosenberg

When rates back up, growth slows quickly. Fully three-quarters of the time in the past five years when we endured a bond yield spasm like we have seen since mid-January, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth slowed the following quarter and by an average of one percentage point.

David Rosenberg

When rates back up, growth slows quickly. Fully three-quarters of the time in the past five years when we endured a bond yield spasm like we have seen since mid-January, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth slowed the following quarter and by an average of one percentage point.

David Rosenberg

When rates back up, growth slows ... quickly. Fully three-quarters of the time in the past five years when we endured a bond yield spasm like we have seen since mid-January, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth slowed the following quarter and by an average of one percentage point.

David Rosenberg

When rates back up, growth slows . . . quickly. Fully three-quarters of the time in the past five years when we endured a bond yield spasm like we have seen since mid-January, GDP (gross domestic product) growth slowed the following quarter and by an average of one percentage point.

With a fall in the yearly rise in average hourly earnings, both investors and policy-makers can avoid pushing the panic button for a little while longer. In other words, while a (May interest rate hike) remains all but assured, this report did little to nail further tightening beyond this stage.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.