Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ajay Prasad

Passengers on low-cost airlines have a common complaint that they are not given meal or accommodation in case of delays.

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.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Mario Pescante

There will not be a change to the law, but we have found a solution to the law, a provision, something like that.

Jon Burnham

This is an incredible thing that's going on in these stocks and it's going to continue for a while until something happens to change it,

Ed Ableser

This is going to change my life a lot.

John Slenker

This is the big story - the change from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy.

Katsuya Okada

This country will not change without a change of government,

Robert Fick

This could springboard us. This tells us we can grind it out, no matter what, and maybe change some thinking about us.

Arthur Sterbcow

This could change the demographics of the city. I think we'll lose a lot of low-income people.

Juergen Falter

This election would be a vote on a complete change of political direction if there were different coalition alternatives.

Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Phillip Phillips

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Joseph Conrad

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

Joseph Conrad

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

Laurel Lea

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Lionel Richie

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Lindsey Buckingham

I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

Phil Collins

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.