Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter Shaffer

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

Quentin Crisp

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Nathaniel Branden

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

Philip Greenspun

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Peter Thiel

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

Terri Windling

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

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.

Lawrence Bender

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Thomas A. Edison

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Simon Bird

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

Neil Patrick Harris

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

John D. Voelker

...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

Placido Domingo

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Karl Lagerfeld

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Kabir Bedi

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Kanye West

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

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.

Emily Oster

The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

John Cornyn

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.

John Bytheway

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

Joel Osteen

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

Joel Osteen

God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything

Joe Bastianich

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

Lou Ferrigno

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

John Garrett

It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.

Jon Stewart

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

Jon Stewart

President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that could be worth millions of dollars to average Americans. Well, average stock-owning Americans. Technically, Americans who own a significant amount of shares in dividend-dealing companies. Well, rich people, that's what I'm trying to say. They're going to do really well with this.

Judith Krantz

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

James Lovelock

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

Jimmy Cannon

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.