Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Scott Adams

A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

Terri Windling

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Simon Sinek

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

Simon Sinek

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

Simon Sinek

Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

Sri Aurobindo

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Randy Schekman

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

Robert Musil

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Rob Zombie

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

Richard P. Feynman

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Richard P. Feynman

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.