Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think my reaction to it is that in summer we typically have more people looking for work, ... well below the national average and state average.

I just felt the need to help kids . . . with more needs than the average child. We've got three grown children and 17 grandchildren.

I just don't understand. It was a really strange game. We only average about four penalties per game and to come out in this one with so many is not typical.

Bob Hill

If Ray had an average shooting night, we win.

If you buy one now based on average selling price a customer will be in equity at 17 months. At 17 months we'll be at full model production. So a customer can drive one for 17 months and then move into the new model if he decides he likes it.

If you have an earthquake like there have been, seven or eight on the Richter scale, the scope of the disaster will be overwhelming and Katrina is a real-life illustration of what would happen. That's why we've focused on the average citizen being prepared.

If you have one foot in a bucket of ice and another in a bucket of boiling water, on average you're perfectly comfortable. In that sense, we're very comfortable with inflation right now.

James Levine

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.

If you put the two months together it still looks as if retail sales were strong at the beginning of the year -- an average increase of 0.8 percent for each of the two months.

If you're a business debtor, your situation doesn't change that much. This is for the average Joe.

If you look at the university system today, USF has an average SAT entry of 1,120 to 1,150 with goals to increase that. Students are expected to come to school often with some of their initial courses already done.

If you look at the average monthly filings for the year, you're looking at about 500 a month, so they really haven't come back yet. They're not even close to what we used to get.

If you look at skilled positions like electrical engineers or application engineers, the average time to fill those positions has gone up from six to eight week. That may not sound like a lot of time, but with all the efficiency improvements of recent years, there's not much leeway in staffing when you have an opening.

If you look at our scores for the first three matches it was our lowest scoring average of the season. So Needham played well and we struggled finishing.

In the U.S., the average depth is 800 feet. At 800 feet, you have good solid substantial covering.

In the U.S. on average six to 10 homes are connected to one substation, compared to between 150 and 200 in Europe.

I don't know how many of those (triple-doubles) we get in the league but that's special. She was below her (scoring) average tonight but she's filling up other columns. So Sheryl finds a way to help her team win a game and it doesn't necessarily have to do with scoring.

Jack Levin

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

Jack Kirby

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Jack Canfield

I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life!

Ivor Novello

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Jack Nicklaus

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

Jack Nicholson

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Beginning and average players are in great demand.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

Gregor Mendel

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

He's struggled a little bit with the bat. But over the last seven games, he's raised his average over 100 points and that's when it counts - in district. He's really stepped it up in district, and that's what I expected from him.

He's fallen into one of the most dangerous traps for a statewide Republican candidate, and that is to become the captive of the Republican base, which is far, far to the right of the average voter in California.

David Downing

Hotels have lost a major revenue stream because nobody's using hotel phones to make calls. This is the kind of thing that is in the fine print in a hotel manual, but the average business traveler doesn't read.

How could you make a university more productive when probably the average faculty member works 80 hours per week? We've been doing more with less for years. When we hear that phrase, that's when you're going to hear the four-letter words up and down the hallways.

Brevin Knight

He's right, our effort was horrible. (Portland) had come out the last three games and lost by 30 points on average and they come in here (Monday) and kick our butts from beginning to end. It's embarrassing.

If mountain lions were conducive to preying upon humans, there would be far more incidents. The average mountain lion is very well-behaved.