Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is an extremely competitive conference, and on any given day, any team can win. Last year was upsetting because we are a much better team than our record showed. We have a great batting average and an excellent work ethic and attitude.

Bill Vaughan

This is another wake-up call to get a handle on runaway medical inflation. We're approaching $1,000 for the average stay in a hospital. This is hurting people and really overloading our economy.

This is an opportunity to get the average Joe who's never downloaded a song on his PC. At $2.50 (per song), as long as it's easy to do and sounds like CD-quality, I think a lot of people are not going to balk at the $2.50 price point.

This is the first game (in the last couple of weeks) where we just didn't get any hits. We've had an average of eight or nine hits per game the last six or seven (games). We've hit the ball. Young kids are overwhelmed by situations. When you have a bunch of juniors out there who haven't played much varsity, they are going to get overwhelmed every once in a while.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

Susan Griffin

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

Stephen Gaghan

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

Stephen F. Lynch

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Philip Greenspun

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Peter Thiel

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

Placido Domingo

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Scott McClellan

Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

Leonard Orr

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

Lawrence Bender

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Thomas A. Edison

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Simon Bird

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

Neil Patrick Harris

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

Tony Abbott

When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

Tilman J. Fertitta

You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.

Tom Vilsack

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

Tim Ferriss

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

Sam Ewing

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

Tad Williams

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Tom Robbins

There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.

Steve Goodman

You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can

Steve Gleason

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

Stephen Covey

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Stephen Hawking

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

Sigmund Freud

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

Stuart Chase

Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

Steven Zaillian

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

T. Boone Pickens

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

Sydney J. Harris

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.