Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Williams

The average retail investor can't be as nimble as institutions. If you buy right now, you might be sitting on a loss for months.

The average residential customer is paying roughly twice as much for natural gas as he did in 1999. These high prices strain the budgets of all homeowners and, even worse, many low-income households must choose between heat and other life necessities.

The average residential customer can be seeing bills 50 percent or more higher.

The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's - but four times as long as the official's who created it.

The average regular viewer watches about half the episodes of series, but with serialized dramas, it can be as high as 70%. When you get one that's successful, you're going to get people there every week.

The average reduction in sales (of tobacco) to minors where there is such a license is 80 percent.

The average price of a new car has crept up to about $23,000, but you can get a decent used car for between $10,000 and $15,000.

The average person usually can't distinguish between them.

Ned Yost

The average person probably doesn't understand what he has done and the accomplishments he's achieved, ... To win 14 consecutive years, it's like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak - it's a record that never will be broken. He has done it with tremendous turnover in roster. He has done it under difficult circumstances. He has done it with rookies. He has done it with veterans. He just does it year after year after year.

the average person is not going to do anything.

The average person is going to find this quite shocking.

Adrienne Warren

The average person is feeling the squeeze from high gas prices,

The average person has no idea how expensive things are going to be this winter. It's not going to sink in until they get the first bill, and then the politicians will be screaming in the streets.

The average person doesn't know that they can call the FBI regional office ... you can call any of the law enforcement offices out there to protect people.

The average person bets $125 a day at the races. A Form user bets $500.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

James Baker

The average number of intense storms is two. We predict we're going to have more than two -- three or more of these intense hurricanes.

The average now is 100 people a day. Last January, it was about 130.

The average mutual fund has lost about 2.5 percent a year to taxes on dividends and capital gains. Most funds are managed without regard to taxes, but taxes are something that can be controlled.

The average means 50 percent of the time, we're over that, and 50 percent of the time, we're under that.

Anatole France

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever

Lily Cole

The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

The average linebacker, I think, is about 6-1 or something like that? If I'm 6-7 running down the field, and it's a one-on-one, I'm going to make the play because of my height.

The average length of time that a child remains in New York city's child welfare system is 49 months, which is astronomically long.

The average length of stay is 48 days, and more than 80 percent of the families found permanent housing in that time. That's a pretty good success rate and we really believe we can bring that same success rate here to Hawaii.

The average length of repair time is four hours from start to finish. Obviously, you have to include outside conditions. Nothing goes good at nighttime at 10 below zero.

The average Kentucky high school graduate is not well prepared, ... I wish we could say it was better than that, but it's not.

The average Joe should be just as concerned about embezzlement, even more so, because it's so easy to do. All you have to do is be trustworthy to do it.

Henry Rollins

The average is the borderline that keeps meremen in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the veryact. Go.

The average investor shouldn't have to depend on a strong IPO market for a technology-focused mutual fund to excel.

The average investor may have exited the market post 9/11, but these households simply stayed the course, letting their investments regain value over time. This strategy is starting to pay off. Some investment losses were offset by gains in real estate, but for the most part, ownership of stocks and bonds remained fairly stable.

The average inbox doesn't have that much spam anymore. The end user would probably say the spam problem is not so bad. They only get a few a day.

Rose George

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.