Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nat Wolff

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

Julian Assange

Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.

Martin Heidegger

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

Nick Saban

It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.

Nick Hornby

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

Mary McCarthy

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Mitchell Baker

Ther average consumer does not know the difference between the browser, the internet, and the search box.

Joseph Rotblat

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

Larry the Cable Guy

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Larry Wall

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

Pablo Picasso

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Oliver North

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

Marcy Kaptur

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

Richard Ford

slow, drawn-out affairs, taking an average of three years to play out.

Arjen Robben

Six weeks is the average time to heal this injury and then I need a few more weeks to be completely fit again,

At the same time, the earnings season so far has been terrific ... the overall pattern suggests you're getting very strong growth and that we'll probably do better than 15 percent, about double the historical average over the last 60 years.

At this stage it does not look very plausible that the Colombian peso will average 2,240 for the year. I am not convinced the peso will have that much momentum to trade below 2,300 again.

That's far higher than the state average and most of our other exchanges.

That means Tokyo Star is seen as an average regional bank and that's why the shares fell below the offer price.

Eddy Curry

That's definitely my goal for next year, to average a double-double. I know if I can go out there and get a double-double every game, more than likely we're going to win. That's what I'm going to try to do.

Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still

A rise in oil prices stifles economic growth, ... There is a close correlation between gasoline prices and retail sales. Paying more per week for gas means less disposable income, which impacts retail and the purchasing power of the consumer, as does a higher average home heating bill due to the cost of fuel oil.

Around mid-2005 we started to see the growth in the replacements that had increased, begin to slow and it'll continue to lessen as we move further into 2006. We expect the average system price to continue to fall and though Q4 unit numbers aren't strong, there remains strong pricing pressure.

Around 75 cents is the sell zone, which is close to the 100-day moving average which provided a bridge too far over the past nine months.

The labor market is very healthy. The most important economic indicator for the average person is their job. As long as people are working, they're earning and that's offsetting a great deal of the pain from record prices at the pump.

Paul Volcker

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

Paul Weyrich

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

Paul Watson

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline? Everybody would look at you like youre completely out of your mind.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Scott McClellan

Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

Leonard Orr

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

Paolo Bacigalupi

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.