Famous Quotes & Sayings

With the Fed maintaining an economic-weakness bias, Greenspan is more likely to be concerned with the signs of further economic weakness in this report rather than worrying about the increase in average hourly earnings.

We have such a young team. At one point in the second period we had on the ice five skaters and a goaltender with an average at of 17.7 years.

Michael Jenkins

While 2005 witnessed a decrease from 2004, the yearly average is still very high in the Marshall Islands when compared both to its own history and to prevalence data from other countries. The Marshall Islands is averaging 14 suicides per year this decade (since 2000).

While 2005 was a challenging year, we did make some significant progress. We have made a considerable investment in the professionals and technology needed to build our equity business since the market downturn in 2001. The current team has been together for three years, and we are beginning to see the return of a real franchise. Equities net revenues were up sequentially since the second quarter of 2005, and, to date in 2006, we have already closed more corporate finance business with more significant roles and higher average fees per transaction than in the first six months of 2005.

Carlos Ghosn

Without any doubt I don't like Formula One with an average show, I like Formula One with a strong show, ... We are doing well at the moment and as long as we keep doing well we will still be in Formula One.

We estimate that the average American has between $100 and $500 in idle loose change. Harnessing the power of the Internet, we have made a process that used to take hours into a simple 5 minute task.

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.

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.

You'll see plumbers, firefighters, homemakers and average working people put first and center stage.

You'll see people switching to different types of appliances. The average person doesn't need Microsoft Word for the type of word processing they do.

You can do a lot more creative things now that we have digital photography, but I think the average person doesn't keep up with their photos the way that they used to.

You can change technology all you want, but you can't change people. Average folks still want to watch the movie and buy it. It's presuming a lot to think that they will replace the model they've used for decades.

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 the first thing the coach told us when we were going over BC: They shoot 26 free throws a game and their opponents average 11 free throws. That's basically how they've been winning games. We just wanted to contain them and stay between them and the basket." ()

Max Mayfield

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

That was a good site for that wind farm on the hills behind Kennewick. They get average wind speeds of 14 to 16 miles per hour consistently so they have a good power factor for those wind turbines.

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.

We haven't beaten them in a long time. It felt good to beat them. The law of averages finally caught up. I was glad to get the win, glad for my team.

Jose Serrano

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.