Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

Aaron Stiegeler

Cody continued to run the ball hard and he had several carries of between 15 and 20 yards. He averaged about six yards a pop. Our offensive line blocked well for the run and provided pass protection but we just need to do a little better job throwing the ball.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

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.

Lewis Ward

This is an opportunity to get the average Joe who's never downloaded a song on his PC. At $2.50 (per song), as long as it's easy to do and sounds like CD-quality, I think a lot of people are not going to balk at the $2.50 price point.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Teri Gault

Your biggest monthly expense is usually your mortgage or your rent. Second is usually groceries for an average American family.

Buck Showalter

You probably average about five spots that teams are trying to shake out, where you can be swayed one way or another.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Glenn Carrin

As a result, places in the Southeast, like Atlanta, are having quite a wet time of it, and we are getting nothing. There's not much in the way of relief for the next 10 days, and January through March show below normal predictions.

Andy Bryant

During the last month or so, those sea surface temperatures have been below normal, further enhancing what we have been seeing.

Brian Reilly

I've managed to save so much because I live below my means.

Louis Mazzucchelli

The wild card here is if they can rebuild their consumer franchise. In order to do that, they need to have some aggressively priced products below $1,000 in the marketplace for Christmas of next year. I think they can do that.

Steve Taylor

That's kind of what everyone is waiting for. If we settle below $60 by the end of the week we may see some further pressure on prices.

Bob Dinneen

Ethanol makes up only 10 percent of a gallon of gasoline. If gasoline prices are up 36 cents, then ethanol would only make up 3.6 cents of that. And 85 percent of users have long-term contracts that are significantly below the spot-market prices.

Ryan Kolb

Brookings has had a real good streak in the last few years. They have a good program. Sioux Falls has been coming on lately. They worked their way into fourth in the league standings in the last month and a half. They were seeded below us for most of the season.

T. S. Eliot

At the first turning of the second stair / I turned and saw below / The same shape twisted on the banister.

Warren Lovely

With growth in central Canada stuck well below potential, the overall track for. . . core inflation should remain subdued.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Andy White

I slept in today until about 12. I had finals (scheduled), but I hadn't studied for any of them, and I was really tired, so I took a break.

Nancy Evans

This is the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle which will let us get the most prized piece of information about a star, that is, its mass.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Linda Kilpatrick

We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.

Charles Bukowski

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Stan Devereux

We are waiting for those final 10,000 votes to be counted. Then we'll see if a recount is necessary.

Kenny Smith

We were one game away from being in the final four. I thought our kids played with intensity and heart, and they never gave up.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

V. S. Pritchett

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Matthieu Ricard

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.