Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Ruskin

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity

Mitch Albom

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

John Fahey

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

Johan Huizinga

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Georg Simmel

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

John Cornyn

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.

John Bytheway

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

Joel Osteen

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

Joel Osteen

God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything

Joe Bastianich

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

Lou Ferrigno

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

John Garrett

It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.

John Maynard Keynes

Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

John Lewis

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

John le Carre

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Jimmy Doolittle

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Jim Rohn

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

Jim Rohn

Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.

Emily Oster

The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

Judith Krantz

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

Karel Capek

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

John D. Voelker

...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.