Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Burns

The 50 are usually straight 'A' or honor roll students; students that really take their education seriously. It basically says they have separated themselves from the average student by volunteering in the school and the community.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

That was an average game for Isaiah. He played well and was good about getting others involved.

Elton Brand

That's the way it should be. I learned that my rookie year. I averaged 20 and 10, while Dale Davis averaged nine and eight. He was on Indiana and they were in second place in the East or whatever and he got the All-Star nod. This time we're the fourth best team in the West, I expect to be there.

That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing.

That style has become the norm for us. We go nine deep, and there's nobody you can single out. We have four kids who all average between nine and 11 points per game.

That's the mark of a good team. When you have a player you rely on so much and when she's not up to her average self, you rely on other girls and they stepped up tonight and did what it took to win.

That's been a trademark of our football team. We go out every Saturday and try to play with intensity, we try to play with emotion, and we try to play with a chip on our shoulder. Until we do that, we're just an average team. When we do that, we can really step up to a challenge.

I was really encouraged by yesterday's move. I don't know about the average - the average is in the process of bottoming - but it may well be that the average can kind of bottom out, individual stocks are going to go off on their own, up or down.

I was really encouraged by yesterday's move, ... I don't know about the average - the average is in the process of bottoming - but it may well be that the average can kind of bottom out, individual stocks are going to go off on their own, up or down.

I was pleasantly surprised. The four district championships we won before were by an average margin of 11 points. To win this one by 55 was something special.

Jennifer Dunn

Most of the companies we are talking to offer 115 percent of the average wage, so that helps them.

Why we were so successful this year was the balance of the five starters and people who also contributed off the bench. I doubt it will be any one person coming in and trying to average 25 points a game again. It's going to have to be the success of a group of people -- that's what basketball is all about.

When the average wine bottle on a list costs more than your dinner, when you have to decide between a bottle of wine and your kid's dentist appointment, it's a wine crime and the Wine Patrol is ready to speak out.

I think Marlon is a special talent. There's nothing that could stop him from becoming an outstanding big league ballplayer, not an average big league ballplayer." ()

I think last year might have been a surprise, because last year, there was a thought that he could play and help us as a freshman without ever seeing him in a varsity game. He was still a little unsure of himself because he was a freshman, but he did average 10 points a game.

I think I was very average on a lot of their goals. If I play to my capability, we win that game 3-1. I don't think they were doing anything special. ... If we're going to win this thing, I have to make those saves on the bad bounces, but thank God it's a series and it's not college where it's one game and out. We can still get the split.

Alex Berenson

John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

Justin averaged 21.5 points and was 11 of 19 on threes and didn't get named last week.

Many people don't realize that we actually produce six different newspapers and the HCN (Houston Community Newspaper)-wide entertainment section Greater Houston Weekly in this office. That is an average of 150 pages each week! We do all that with just a handful of folks - who don't receive much in the way of money for their efforts.

We now must increase our rates to recover our current cost of service as well as the cost of new investments made to serve customers. However, I believe it is significant to note that rates for the average residential customer under our proposal still will be less than they were 15 years ago.

Chris Miller

We now have a very large membership base. When the squad started we only had four members, and that was the average per year for a while. And now we get between 15 and 30 people every year.

(Marcus) is an average athlete, but he's really skilled and understands the game. I think he will have an easy transition to the Division I level.

Literally the most trivial thing gets charged to the taxpayer, (and) things that the average person would never think of trying to buy, like a $70 steak,

Cliff Martinez

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

I was happy. We played average at best in the beginning, but when we went down 6-5 we got some rhythm going in our offense and scored the next four goals.

I think our main interest just lay in popular music, something that had a little bit more of a mainstream appeal, that the average person could find accessible.

Jim Talent

I think Roy probably came into Congress with more experience and accomplishments than the average congressman. It helped him hit the ground running in a lot of respects. He was never really a freshman.

Butch Harmon

When you're teaching an average golfer, you can experiment a lot more, ... If that doesn't work, try this. You can't do that with a tour pro.

We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health care was the main issue in about 45 or 46 percent of our cases.

John Tortorella

We had let a (lack of) effort seep into our team and I was scared to death that that kind of effort had become acceptable. If we lose our work ethic, we're an average or a below-average team.

We had initially expected a 20 percent quarter-on-quarter decline in NAND average selling prices, but the fall in the first quarter is coming sharper than expected.

Bob Mackie

We have a lot of important brocades and bouclŽs and hand-painted chiffons. ...Things that are just a little more glamourous, a little more movie star probably than your average line.