Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gary Cooper

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

M. Night Shyamalan

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Lou Holtz

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Fred Thompson

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

Karl Lagerfeld

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Kabir Bedi

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Kanye West

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

Gustave Flaubert

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

Matt Taibbi

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Meg Rosoff

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

Mark Zandi

The Fed chair doesn't matter a lot to the average person in normal times. He matters an awful lot when things aren't going well -- when the financial markets freeze, or there's a 9/11 or Y2K or Iraq war. When people lose confidence, the Fed chairman is vital to restoring confidence and ensuring functioning financial markets and economy.

The consensus view is that immigration has a negative impact on the real wages of native workers. We have shown that the effects of immigration on the average wages of (U.S.) natives indeed turn positive and large.

The continued rise of our three-month average since October 2005 still shows strength in the market and, significantly, this discouraged the MPC from cutting interest rates in February.

Mike Richards

The costs we incur for paying for natural gas we have to pass on to the customer. We do everything we can to keep prices down because of our customers. One of the things we suggest to our customers is average billing. This is where your bill can be averaged out over 12 months. It is a big help and a good thing to do for our customers.

The Chinese spend an average of $175 per day when they are abroad. That is what is keeping China on a lot of people's radar.

I'm going to be 80 in three months. That's about 10 years more than the average guy even does as far as I can tell. And, I'm getting tired, and I figured I've put in my time.

It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.

Julia Gillard

We are constantly being told that we've never been wealthier. And many of us are. On average we all are. But that's just the problem.. no one is average.

We have a bunch of guys who work hard. On this team, we have four guys who average double-figures in scoring, and I think we did what we needed to do tonight.

This was just an average meet. There was nothing sensational. Hopefully, it'll be a wake-up call and our girls will get the picture. If we plan to win a fifth straight state title, these times will have to come down.

This weekend everyone in the country shoots and that score is worth 50 percent of the score you need to make it. We have a decent average with our top three scores.

This team averaged 37 points a game last year, so to shut a team out like that is a credit to these guys.

This was the first time more than 50 percent had e-filed, but Pennsylvania lags behind the national average with about 45 to 46 percent of returns being e-filed.

They will probably see very little impact in the beginning and then, as time goes on, as the average updates, that's when you would see the increases.

Bill Gross

They will cut until they reach the point that the average consumer finally cries 'uncle' and starts to take on risk.

Things have changed dramatically since Saturday when there was some snow in the Boston area. The average high in Boston is 55 degrees at this time of year and we're projecting 68 to 70 degrees.

David Chang

There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.