Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Wilson

Honestly, raising my average to where it is now has probably been the biggest up-hill battle of my career. I just want to finish as high as I can and put the start to this season behind me.

Chris Collins

He's worked harder than the average senior. Aubrey has pushed himself and has really bulked up and kept himself straight.

Human beings are complicated, yet from our experience of working with hundreds of thousands of people, weve learned that most or even all of the average persons neuroses and hang-ups disappear when they start giving and serving others.

Bo Ryan

He's a pretty versatile player. He's taller than average at 6-11 and he can shoot it, he can pass it and he values the game. If he doesn't have a good shot, he'll pass it, but he also knows he's got the green light to shoot it.

Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar.

Gas prices are the classic pocketbook issue for the average person and the average family, and these are things that they notice very much. It helps explain the paradox we see in the polls: The economy is very good, but right now a majority of people say it isn't. The hurricane, and its aftermath, will only exacerbate this problem.

Good luck. That's how many strikeouts (an average of 245) over how many years (27)? Straight. Without getting hurt, without whatever. That's pretty good.

George Bernard Shaw

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Fred Brooks

Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.

Franz Kafka

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

I look at the top five runner's average from this event, and Evansville Memorial was the only school to have a better average for the boys. I thought we stacked up pretty well as a team.

Jack Kelly

I look at popular history as a sort of synthesis for the non-expert, ... Scholarly history goes into the primary materials and expands the limits of knowledge about a particular subject. I'm working mostly with secondary materials, for the average reader.

Will Kemp

In this country, the average actor goes to drama school and then perhaps does small parts on British TV, plays a waiter and whatever. And there I was sharing the screen with Christian Slater and Val Kilmer. It's like, did I miss a beat somewhere?

David Downing

Hotels have lost a major revenue stream because nobody's using hotel phones to make calls. This is the kind of thing that is in the fine print in a hotel manual, but the average business traveler doesn't read.

How could you make a university more productive when probably the average faculty member works 80 hours per week? We've been doing more with less for years. When we hear that phrase, that's when you're going to hear the four-letter words up and down the hallways.

Brevin Knight

He's right, our effort was horrible. (Portland) had come out the last three games and lost by 30 points on average and they come in here (Monday) and kick our butts from beginning to end. It's embarrassing.

I don't know how many of those (triple-doubles) we get in the league but that's special. She was below her (scoring) average tonight but she's filling up other columns. So Sheryl finds a way to help her team win a game and it doesn't necessarily have to do with scoring.

Jack Levin

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

Jack Kirby

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Jack Canfield

I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life!

Ivor Novello

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Tim Ryan

But I really think that this administration, very similar to the first President Bush's administration, has really gotten out of touch with average American families.

Beginning and average players are in great demand.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

Gregor Mendel

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

He's struggled a little bit with the bat. But over the last seven games, he's raised his average over 100 points and that's when it counts - in district. He's really stepped it up in district, and that's what I expected from him.

He's fallen into one of the most dangerous traps for a statewide Republican candidate, and that is to become the captive of the Republican base, which is far, far to the right of the average voter in California.

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.

John Dee

The mid-section of the nation might start to cool to at least average levels by the weekend and into next week. The Northeast U.S. may also eventually join in.

Their five starters averaged about 70 points a game. We averaged around 50, so we didn't want to get in a running game with them.

Eugene Levy

There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years in the business on SCTV, ... I have more fun playing guys who are not the sharp pencils. I like the characters who are just average, if not a little below average, so the average person can look at my character on the screen and feel a little better about themselves.

Don Davis

The only way I got through this point in my life was by the grace of God. I had done nothing to deserve getting picked up. I could have just been an average guy who once had a shot. But thanks to God, I'm where I am today.

We decided there was merit to the thing, and that your average Canadian doesn't want to see the thing put away and hidden just because of a commercial dispute in a professional hockey league.