Famous Quotes & Sayings

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

Pat Riley

If he's put in that role every single night, he'd average 20 points per game. You sort of forget a little bit how good he can be when he gets a number of good opportunities.

Mary Roach

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

Bob Stoops

I felt the law of averages would eventually swing back your way. We were due for something good to happen, and sure enough, it happened.

Jim Boeheim

If Gerry played at Notre Dame he'd probably average 25 a game for four years because that's what he gets when he comes here.

I'd hate to see our batting average with the bases loaded.

I definitely have to be a table-setter. My job is to get on base and just score as many runs as I can. Whether my numbers are there or not, I just want to score. I don't really mind what I hit or what my slugging percentage is. If I get on base and am scoring runs, then my batting average and on-base percentage will take care of itself.

I can put a system in in about 20 minutes. The average person may take about an hour or so.

I can probably count the number (of peanut-free flights) on two hands. And on an average day, we fly 2,300 flights.

Whitney Tilson

I can virtually guarantee at today's value levels, no matter what, over multiple years they will rise. The world's greatest companies are trading at below- average multiples when they're wildly above-average companies.

I don't think the average person is seeing the economy in such great shape. They are seeing it in terms of what they pay for gas, they're seeing it in terms of what they pay for health care. Bush can talk about an upturn. There are indicators that show there is an upturn. But these aren't things that people deal with every day.

I'd say the average person (would be) shocked by what they want in health care.

I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.

I don't see any reason to (change) when you average as many wins as we have. It seems silly to change a philosophy that was successful.

Mehcad Brooks

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

I averaged about 10-15 hours of work a week, ... But it was more motivation for me to get in there and improve my work.

I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I can find going home, and it costs $35 to $50. That cuts into my profit quite a bit.

Mo Williams

I average 15, so I feel I have to score a little bit. With T.J. out, I just have to find my places.

Andy Duncan

I believe most homes can reduce their overall energy consumption by an average of at least 20 percent.

I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly,

I don't think the segment is growing fast enough for everyone to win. The Koreans are going to take the biggest hit. But I think only two of the three Japanese offerings will be a success. Or one will be a success and the other two will see average sales." ()

I don't think the market can go much higher, and I don't think the Dow Jones average will immediately go to 10,000 or anything like that. I think we've seen the great rise. That doesn't mean we're going to see a terrible decline, but I think the great rise is over and caution is the word.

He's not ready. It's his typical Spring Training regimen. If you look at his past, he basically averages eight innings in 'A' games, even back when he was in Atlanta. His first spring they pitched him 20 innings and he basically had a 10.00 ERA. It takes him a while to get going.

Alan Johnson

I don't mean it in a bad way, but my intentions aren't to be here for a full season. I want to move. I'm not a top five round kind of guy, so I feel like whenever I come out, I have even more to prove. If I have an average outing, it's kind of overlooked. Every outing I go out, I got to do my best.

Kiran More

Come off it, there has to be some difference between the average fan, the man on the street and us. We believe that he lends great value to the team.

James Bovard

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

Jakob Nielsen

On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectable, and some were standouts.

By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

J. J. Johnson

By that I could tell he was a consistent bowler. His average spoke for itself. I don't think I was taking a chance.

Jack Wilson

Honestly, raising my average to where it is now has probably been the biggest up-hill battle of my career. I just want to finish as high as I can and put the start to this season behind me.

Chris Collins

He's worked harder than the average senior. Aubrey has pushed himself and has really bulked up and kept himself straight.

Morgan Spurlock

I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.