Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Emily Coombe

We are looking to be more controlled. We hope to play smart, controlled games. We hope to cut down on our errors. Last year we averaged just over four a game. We want to cut that in half to two or less per game.

Joe Battista

We are a very average team when we try to go by ourselves -- when we move the puck; we're awesome. I don't know what happened, if they see the big crowd and decide they're going to go Hollywood on us.

Sue Bailey

There are customers that will love it. My biggest concern is: Can we teach the average cook how to use it?

Frankie Hejduk

We actually gave it an extra week and it?s feeling good. It?s about getting past the altitude. Everyone knows that in the first 20 minutes you start to breathe heavy. You catch your second wind after about 30 minutes, but you just have to get past that point.

Robert Smith

Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger

Maggie Q

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

Terrance Carter

We're going to eat, sleep, breathe (Indian Hills). It's all about Saturday. This is a good momentum builder. We've got to get ready for it.

Cathy Freeman

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

William Henderson

This allows us to breathe for a moment, ... We've got a young team, the fifth-youngest in the NFL, and these guys are trying their best, trying to understand what the coaches are teaching them. We've maintained our poise and tried to overcome adversity. Now, we have to keep getting better.

Brendan Barber

This is a major victory for the simple union principle that people at work should not have to breathe in toxins.

Valentino Castellani

It's a great step forward and allows us to breathe a big sigh of relief.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Lennon Parham

We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Judd Rose

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Patrick Halsted

When we go to elevated (alert status) we fortify structures deemed critical - this is one of them.

Debbie Ryan

We would pull within two or four and then we would make a critical error and it would just deflate us. That is a sign of a young, inexperienced team.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Frank Gannon

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Brad Pleimann

Until we see earnings impacted by oil, I don't think the market is going to be responsive.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

Atharva Veda

A man beaming with enthusiasm naturally accomplishes his works easily and quickly.

Linda Holden

They tend to get discouraged pretty easily and a lot of them leave. Adults have a lot going on.

Jarome Iginla

It's not just the saves he makes, it's the timing of them too. He is easily the No. 1 reason why we're fighting for the top of the division.

Scott Gordon

It so easily could have been Houston or Galveston.

Marla Shavin

This pivotal piece easily makes the transition from day to evening.

Jordan Ritter

It's a good law for people who want to follow it, but the real fundamental problem is the practice itself and the fact that people aren't easily tracked down.

David Pickard

I told our guys we had to play through the fouls. We could have easily folded and gotten frustrated, so that's one thing I'm most proud of.

Christopher Brand

It probably will be spread by one that isn't killed very easily by it.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

The Fed is totally open.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Shawn Johnson

Unless it's really, really outside of what is expected, the Fed probably won't move at all between now and the end of the year,

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Joe Horn

We fed (the Giants) on a platter, and they ate.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Kenneth Langone

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

Claire McCaskill

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Edward Gibbon

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Dean Cain

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

David Twohy

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Walliams

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

David Hyde Pierce

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

David Brooks

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Tim Shaw

Rate has to be part of the solution for Florida.

Jeremy Friesen

The view on where U.S. rates go seems to be most contentious.

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

Glenn Thomas

And, we have been struggling with our rates ever since.

Patricia Vance

Congratulations for selling a lot of violent video games, I didn't sell them, sir. I just rated them.

Loren Scott

We have exported a lot of our unemployment rate to other states.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.