Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The gap lower below the 200-day moving average is noteworthy since the market has not been below this.... since 2002.

The GDP growth differential probably widened to a full two percentage points last year, while final domestic demand expanded nearly four points faster on average than on the continent. While this gap might narrow somewhat in 2006, we think that the country will continue to outperform by a wide margin; our current GDP forecast for this year stands at 3.3% versus 2.1% for the euro area.

The dollar's average break-even level for Japanese manufacturers is estimated at 115.32 yen for the current business year. So if the dollar slips to around 115 yen, that should be pretty negative to Japan's corporate earnings and its economy.

The Dow Theory says when correction lows are established, you want to see a retest of the highs, and if the retest of the highs in both averages fails and the market goes below those intermediate lows, that is under definition of the Dow Theory, a bear market.

The Dow Jones industrial average is not a trendy index. But it's an index that's proven over time -- in recent years and over the long run -- that it is highly correlated with other indexes, the broader market and the economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average is not a trendy index, ... But it's an index that's proven over time -- in recent years and over the long run -- that it is highly correlated with other indexes, the broader market and the economy.

The early indication is that its an average type of year with good rain and snowfall. If things keep progressing as they are now, we should have near normal stream flows this summer.

The easing in economic growth over the past year, together with a ratio of house price to average earnings that remains historically high, is expected to curb housing demand, and therefore prevent a renewed surge in house prices.

The form of entertainment is no problem. There are individuals who are going to react abnormally to normal material, but it's not a problem for the average person.

Chuck Schumer

The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants.

The median and average home prices are still off the Richter scale. We are seeing some correcting of the market happening, where the value is definitely not going down -- it's just taking longer to sell your home. (The market) is still extremely strong.

John D. Rockefeller

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Jon Stewart

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

Jon Stewart

President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that could be worth millions of dollars to average Americans. Well, average stock-owning Americans. Technically, Americans who own a significant amount of shares in dividend-dealing companies. Well, rich people, that's what I'm trying to say. They're going to do really well with this.

Russell Banks

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Truman Capote

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

Paolo Bacigalupi

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

Paul Volcker

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

Paul Weyrich

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

Paul Watson

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.