Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Tice

This young man averaged 1.87 (seconds) get-off in the game. Virtually, you could have a guy run free and he can't block the kick. So that's the great thing.

Michelle Perry

This year's winners stand out for their excellence in service. Because real travelers are making the selections, Travelers' Choice winners are not necessarily the 'in' places for the rich and famous but rather the hotels that make the average traveler feel rich and famous. This year's winners feature something for everyone, from bargain to luxury hotels in major cities to extraordinary finds in off-the-beaten-path places around the world.

Georgette Mosbacher

I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.

Gene Weingarten

While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber.

Gary Hamel

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

Jim Calhoun

We lead the country in field-goal percentage defense at 37 (percent) coming in. We average 9.6 blocked shots per game. All those numbers would tell you that we did not do the things that we're capable of doing.

We have created a plan here that is so difficult, so confusing and so hard for average people to understand that many seniors are struggling to try to figure out what is the best plan to turn to in order to protect themselves,

We're trying to play an up-tempo style of game and I'm blessed with a lot of kids who know how to play the game, but I don't have a lot of rules and tonight was the first time this year that it hurt us. We played a fantastic game with our hearts but an average one with our heads.

The real rewards are for the average citizen of the community that gets certified.

We were right around our average for our home course. A few missed shots, it could have gone either way.

We (Connecticut residents) are still better off than the average person in the United States. Our cost of living is higher here but our incomes our even higher.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

When people see him pitch for the first time, they see someone with average stuff, average sinker, average change, average breaking ball,

Bill Belichick

When people say they're slowing down, I don't know what games they're watching. I'd like to be able to go out and average 35 points a game.

We would not be surprised to see gold average about $460 next year.

George Brett

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

To hit Mr Brown's forecast now, quarterly growth would have to average around 1.0 percent in the remaining three quarters which looks very unlikely.

Tom Crean

You have to incorporate these things into practice. It takes a lot of courage to make free throws, and that?s often what separates really good teams from average teams. You have to make it a point of emphasis.

You may be able to get away with bad habits 10 times. But all it takes is one time and the law of averages catches up with you.

Kevin McCarthy

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Eva Gabor

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

Moby

I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.

Moby

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.

Julia Gillard

We are constantly being told that we've never been wealthier. And many of us are. On average we all are. But that's just the problem.. no one is average.

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.

David Talbot

For the average user, the Internet these days all too often resembles New York's Times Square in the 1980s. It was exciting and vibrant, but you made sure to keep your head down, lest you be offered drugs, robbed, or harangued by the insane. Times Square has been cleaned up, but the Internet keeps getting worse.

For the average Net surfer, manually checking 20 or 30 sites every hour for breaking news would make it impossible to actually do any work.

For the average 18-, 19- or 20-year-old, they are history,

H. L. Mencken

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y