Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Simmons

And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist.

The juniors are a pretty good class, and we have five good sophomores. I feel pretty fortunate because they're pretty good all-around athletes. We've been pretty impressed with their overall skills. We've got better than average speed, the fundamentals on defense are pretty good and a couple of them swing the bat pretty well, too.

These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.

These are double to triple the number we would see in an average season.

This is my ninth year to sing with the chorus. I joined after I retired and I certainly enjoy singing with them. Our average age is 72 and we have a great time together. We practice each Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Our performances begin around the middle of April.

This is likely to lead to a lower-than-expected average selling price for Intel's overall MPU (microprocessor) portfolio.

Harry Caray

This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.

This is a great Happy New Year from the governor, and we thank him. What that will mean on average is a $90 bump for our families.

This is a landmark occasion in the history of our company, and in the history of automotive technology. As the purest tire inflation gas on the market, PurigeN98(TM) will be a key component in optimizing the performance of vehicles driven by the average consumers, and not just the vehicles of professionals and a few others who are aware of this alternative.

Bob King

All in all, it was just an average season.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

Pharrell Williams

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

Mariska Hargitay

They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.

Matt Ridley

The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.

Henrik Ibsen

Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness

Charles M. Schwab

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

Bill Coleman

And that's the average worker. The reality is that while every commuter is experiencing a financial hardship with increases in gas prices, those individuals earning the minimum wage of $5.15 per hour are being the hardest hit, with a whopping 11.3% of their salary being pumped into their gas tank annually.

R. A. Salvatore

A professional often can detect things that the average person would miss.

Any system we could build today that would come close to the needed level of security for a national election would be very hard for an average person to use, ... We couldn't use standard browsers, and we would need a way to authenticate users, like passwords or encryption keys.

Anything that helps enhance democracy to give average people a voice is a noble and good use of technology.

Any of these new systems would continue to pay star players multi-million dollar salaries, would see the maintenance of an average player salary of $1.3 million and would pay the players more than 50 percent of league revenues,

A service like www.concerttickets.com is greatly needed. It can be challenging for the average person to know if a ticket is real or fake. By using this service and a credit card with a licensed ticket broker you are significantly more safe and secure in purchasing tickets in the secondary marketplace.

As a team, most of our guys shot around their averages for the season. Ryan Robley did shoot a couple of strokes below with his best back-to-back nines of the season.

As bad as it's been the last few months, just being average wouldn't be bad at all.

As a result, we expect that the German economy will continue to grow by a mere 1 percent on average in the years to come, ... the German election results lower the pressure on other European countries to implement major economic reforms.

Reed Hundt

As a result of this order and the WTO agreement, we predict that the average price of an international call will drop from 88 cents today to 20 cents five years from now,

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

Brad Soderberg

The bottom line is, we didn't make shots. It's just disappointing that we played as well as we did defensively, and yet it's a 10-point loss. And we missed free throws. It's just not good enough if you want to beat good teams. You've got to play complete basketball, not just defend, not just rebound, it's got to be complete. We're either going to get it or we're going to continue to be a .500 team. We're either going to figure it out or remain an average program.

Tim Finchem

The bottom line is, we can challenge the players much more effectively with much more firm and fast conditions. As a matter of fact, in the studies we've done over the last 10 years, the difference between a generally soft course and a firm and fast golf course is an average of five shots in the winning score and about the same in terms of the overall scoring average.

Manny Ramirez

said Millar, who is .306 in last 75 games after hitting just .231 in his first 44, to bring his average to .276. ''I've been a .290 hitter in this league for the last eight years. At the end of the season, I'll be right around there.

Jose Serrano

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

Craig Venter

Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.

David Rosenberg

Pretty heavy to where the average person would bore pretty quickly. This magazine has none of that. This magazine focuses on faith stories