Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Florence Nightingale

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

George Orwell

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

George Orwell

As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'

Cassandra Clare

It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average.

George Eliot

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Fred Allen

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

Marilyn Mackes

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Arlo Guthrie

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Ron Eglash

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Patrick Carman

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

Paul Langhu

We have temporarily withdrawn the blockade due to the hardships faced by the common people in the area.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Peter Baynham

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

Donna Favors

When we show concern for the happiness in others, we ultimately enhance the happiness in ourselves.

Mike Flowers

Naturally, it hurt our pocketbooks. But we knew it was coming, so we saved some extra funds. Our concern now is how quickly it will come back.

John Gannon

I have a concern that density may not be as good a fit for Boise.

John Morse

That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

Bonnie Herzog

The concern was with $3 billion, the flood gates were open. This helps to alleviate some of that concern.

Chuck Hagel

the concern I always have in these matters as well as others when it comes to power in government is too much power concentrated in too few hands.

Arlen Specter

You can't open up the paper or turn on the TV without hearing (about) public concern about the Patriot Act,

J. J. Johnson

We still have a concern about having such a big portion of the park occupied all summer long by the stage.

John Murray

It's not going to be a concern now. With the rain, we won't be issuing any red flag warnings in the next few days.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries

David Eagleman

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

Angie Ridings

When you first get sober, drinking is all you can think about.

Linda McGlade

We thought that everything was OK. She was talking and drinking and eating.

Ellen DeGeneres

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

R. Ingram

There were times when only 10 or 12 guys would show up and go through the motions of a practice. There was no energy and no desire. This was not the place to be.

Albert Einstein

There is not the slightest indication that (nuclear) energy will ever be obtainable.

David Suzuki

Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.

Justin Rattner

We are really focused on minimizing energy per instruction. That's the new mantra.

Gregg Warren

This year the real question is 'how do we streamline our operations so we don't get nailed so hard when these energy prices spike like they do'.

Maria Belgiorno

We know that olive oil made it into our food around 1000 B.C., but it is the first time we have laboratory evidence that it was used in smelting as a fuel.

Scott Skiles

We waited 2 1/2 quarters before we got any energy going.

Anthony Chan

We can't lose sight of the fact that energy restricts growth. It is doing so.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Adam Dunn

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena

Noomi Rapace

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

Nora Roberts

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

P. Herbert

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

Pete Rose

Not all rock 'n' roll is like that,

Lester Bangs

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Joseph Campbell

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Karen Carpenter

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

Karen Bass

Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Juliette Lewis

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

Julie Kagawa

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

Julianne Hough

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

Jerome Forneris

You're truly a star after you've been able to do whatever it is that you do for at least three years,

Boethius

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

Alice Cooper

Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.

Anna Akhmatova

The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.

Alastair Campbell

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

Alastair Campbell

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Albert Claude

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.

Albert Brooks

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

Albert Camus

And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Alex Chilton

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Alex Chilton

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

Alex Flinn

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

Alex Ferguson

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.