Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jimmy Cannon

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

Eric Thomas

Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

Eric Thomas

I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.

Eric Thomas

You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.

Eric Thomas

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

Eric Thomas

When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average!

John Mellencamp

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

John McCain

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

John Fahey

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

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.

Gary Cooper

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

M. Night Shyamalan

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Lou Holtz

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Fred Thompson

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

Gustave Flaubert

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

John Maynard Keynes

Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

John Lewis

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

John le Carre

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Jimmy Doolittle

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Jim Rohn

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.