Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

There's no question the economy's in big trouble, ... We have to look at what's good for the average American.

Fred Anderson

There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,

there's not a direct relationship where we can say the survey indicates an average of 225,000 new jobs per month. Companies are just looking at their business and saying they need to do more hiring, but in a measured way.

Laura Garcia

There's never been so much awareness about security, ... and so much confusion from the average end-user about what's secure and what's not. It's why there are so many Internet-connected computers which are not protected.

There's just a lot more grass-roots passion here for hockey than there is for the NBA. And the average ticket price in the NBA might be a little cost prohibitive for our market. The business model they have now in the NHL makes more sense for us.

The total value of the crab that was caught is up slightly this year and that total values is being caught by one third as many boats and so what's happening is that the average catch per boat is way, way up.

The total number of tickets sold is over 850,000, and we are selling tickets for an average of 8,000 euros a day.

The tobacco buyout is a double-edged sword that cuts sharp and deep. For large-scale white producers, the buyout is a jackpot. Many will become millionaires. Black farmers, however, will receive little. About 12,000 black farmers will receive approximately $300 million - the average black quota holder will receive only $5,000.

Robert Greene

The United States government is hated universally. But the average American person is not. This distinction is being made not because these countries are interested in cooperation but because of the needs of people.

Steve Kerr

Isn't that great? You play 15 years, average six points a game and they call you a legend when you show up at All-Star weekend. I won't correct it if they run it. I'll just go with it.

is something you can run on the average phone. We see this as a great way to expand the Internet into a new market.

Dominique Wilkins

I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.

Dick Armey

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Greg Smith

We test an average of 100 people a month and have had very few false positives. We see the test as the first step in determining an individual's HIV status.

This is the real world. You have a deadline. You have to write in such a way that not just a sophisticated professor can understand it, but the average person.

They probably have the second-best (inside players) in the conference. Obviously Texas has the best, but Nebraska's three guys average 20 rebounds a game. They're killing people in terms of rebounding.

Michael Waltrip

They play like the average worker. They play just like I play.

They're average American kids which is really, really important so we can then translate the results to the rest of the country.

Doris Day

Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say: "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

Dwayne Johnson

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

Will Kemp

In this country, the average actor goes to drama school and then perhaps does small parts on British TV, plays a waiter and whatever. And there I was sharing the screen with Christian Slater and Val Kilmer. It's like, did I miss a beat somewhere?

Dan Patrick

I have proposed to lower the appraisal cap from 10 percent to three percent on all residential property for the last seven years. We cannot increase a person's property tax every year at three times the rate of inflation. People cannot keep up under our current appraisal system. In just about 20 years, the average home in Texas will be valued at nearly $1 million with a $30 thousand a year tax bill. We must reign in state spending which is up 45 percent in five years.

I have to give the kids a lot of credit. We were struggling, but we didn't let up on them in practice. We worked them harder. We talked about not settling for an average shot, but working for a good one. We did that in the second half.

In the past year, the average wage went up over 8 percent. That's a faster growth than the state of Florida or the United States. But we are still 4 percent below the average wage in the state and 19 percent below the U.S.

In the past, a new product launch would generate healthy sales for two, three, even five years. In 2005, with sales nearly breaking through the $3 billion dollar mark, the average new launch was down to $0 dollars within 12 months.

In the big scheme of things, it's big, but not overwhelming for us. We put extra money in the budget for things like this to happen. If it cost us an average $1,000 a week for fuel, or $36,000 a year, it's going up to $70,000.

If you were gonna pick any guy to be successful that has never thrown a college pass, it would be Brad. He's not an average sophomore.

Jesse Ventura

If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.

In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.

In 2004, the average game buyer was 37 years old and the average game player was 30. Knowing this, our industry creates a wide range of content for a diverse consumer audience, just as other entertainment industries do. And, it's illogical that video games would be treated more harshly than R-rated movies or music CDs with parental warning labels, both of which can be legally viewed and sold to minors. How can you treat a video game based on James Bond any different than a book or movie based on the same subject matter?

Allen Iverson

I guess it's just having time to play with each other and learning each other, just finding out how he wants to play and vice versa. He told me coming into the season that he wasn't doing his job if I didn't average four or five more points than I had been, and he was right because I am. ... We work together. We find out what plays we want to run. When we call plays for him, he tells me things he can do to get me an easy basket. And when a play is called for me, I let him know, if they take certain things away from me, what I can get for him. So it's just having some chemistry, being together and having a coach that understands that both of us need the ball and understands how both of us want to play.

Nigel Worthington

I had a good chat with him and the biggest thing which disappoints me is that he's gone away and the training has been average and low key. That's no help to him in terms of losing fitness. That was noticeable on Sunday.

Gary Shapiro

I think 1997 will be a year of value for the consumer, ... For instance, the average price of a 31-inch TV set price is $400 less today than it was at the same time last year.