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.

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.

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.

Norman Peacock

I feel right now, here in Palatka, the average person really has no say-so. The commission, mayor and city manager basically run everything. They always say you can come forward with your ideas, but nobody really listens. I've become very frustrated.

James Cameron

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

Florence Nightingale

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

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 Mikes

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

George Mikes

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Andrew Lo

If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.

Bart Thompson

It has been the last four years that the winner of this tournament has gone on to win the state championship. Let's hope we can make that five years in a row.

Barry Mann

I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being a songwriter.

Tony Russa

I know it sounds like bull, but I don't care. If you get in, you've got as good a shot as anybody, five games or seven games. It's that kind of a tournament.

Tom Arnold

I predict it will be a long night at the Farber house if they lose. This is the first game in five years I've been to without working.

Richard Krajicek

I'm really happy to win my first WTA title, ... It was a tough week ? of five matches here I've won three in three sets,

Bob Jesmain

I'm just speechless right now. We've been down by a run four or five times this year, and the kids just refused to lose. These kids showed a lot of heart and character, and that's what it's about.

Johnny Damon

I'm looking for five plus (years). And I'm looking for a lot (of money).

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

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.

Hillary Clinton

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.