Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

Wentworth Miller

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

Greg Aiello

The policy is that if the average temperature is below 50 degrees, then the city needs a dome. That being said, any league city is welcome to make a presentation.

Christian Maher

The outlook remains unchanged, but the business has to pedal faster on subscriber growth to offset falling average revenue per user in order to meet expectations.

Douglas Coupland

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Art Ayre

We produce data on average wage by industry, but the portion of compensation that we haven't had (in our surveys) is benefits, We decided it was time to get on the bandwagon and do this.

Robert Douglas

We probably get an average of two shoplifting calls a day from Wal-Mart. But we want to do more than respond. We want to be proactive.

Peter Diepenbrock

We probably average 10 turnovers a game. We had 24. Jeremy (Lin) had nine. He's never had nine turnovers before.

Terence Winter

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

James Lindsay

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene,

Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

David McEntire

We are definitely going to have to look at all of the recommendations, find some sort of consensus and do what we can to implement those, but it will probably be a lengthy process.

Jim Jordan

When we're done, piping plover and habitat will still be out there. The consensus is, if we do nothing, the habitat is going to go away.

Tim Evans

There is a very strong consensus that gold will continue its trend higher this year and that, in itself, is a warning sign.

Lloyd Banks

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Raymond Kelly

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Gary Samore

Whether it is by consensus or by vote, either way it ends up in New York.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Seinabo Sey

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

Bruce Rauner

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Jan McDonald

We are not playing the rest of the season due to an insufficient number of players.

John Jewell

Wherefore your poor subjects' most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

Jim Smith

There are three large refineries that have been shut down since Katrina that are due to come online at the end of this month. That bodes well for lower prices.

Richard DeKaser

There are not a lot of surprises here. We knew February will be a down month in spending after a torrid January due to mild weather. This is exactly what we got.

Michael Hughes

We have had a strong run, largely pushed by the miners and energy stocks. Perhaps these sectors are due to take a break.

Peggy Noonan

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

Freddy Shepherd

We promised our supporters that we would sign a top-class striker and we have exceeded every expectation by signing Michael from Real Madrid on a four-year contract.

Rick Waugh

We had another year of record results and exceeded all of our 2005 targets,

Brad D. Smith

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

Bob Turcotte

We have more than exceeded my expectations. I thought perhaps going 14-5 would be reasonable.

Jim Sexton

We've already exceeded in 2006 our revenue for 2005 in terms of signed deals.

Richard Davies

We found some guys. It went well. It exceeded my expectations.

Fadel Gheit

The hurricane impact significantly exceeded everybody's highest estimate. Being in the Gulf of Mexico and being in the path of the hurricanes, there's nothing you can do about that.

Michelle Hewitt

Last year we exceeded the goal by $7,000. We hope to do even better this year.

Paul Whetsell

Results from all three of our recent investments have exceeded our initial expectations and contributed significantly to our excellent 2005 results.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Corey Johnson

If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here. A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here, ... A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Barry Ritholtz

When Greenspan spoke the market rallied, and when he stopped it gave the gains back.

Mahavira

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Natalie Morales

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Bob Nelson

We pretty much provide most if not all of the kinds of jobs they are going to need in slot parlors.

Alan Cohen

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

Alan Cohen

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Dick Cheney

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Dick Cheney

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

Dick Cheney

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

Dick Cheney

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Arthur C. Nielsen

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Al Madrigal

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Thom Browne

Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.

Lia Ices

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Victoria Moran

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

Lisa Roth

We're known for our lime, our citrus. We are the citrus state. We should have a citrus Key lime pie. Georgia, they need to keep their pie over in Georgia.

Michael Marks

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Cliff Danley

Tiger is the key to validating your success. You can get nine of the top 10 players, but if you don't get him ...

Eddy Curry

Y'all pulled out the old stuff, ... This is the vintage stuff. Throwback. This is crazy, man, crazy.

Yolanda King

I pulled over to the side of the road and we prayed.

Elaine Morgan

I pulled off to the side of the road under an overpass,

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

Fareed Zakaria

I occasionally find myself reluctant to be pulled into a world that's not mine, in the sense that I'm not a religious guy.

Rebecca Allen

I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.

Colonel Farnacio

The troops pulled out because big boulders are cascading down the mountain.

Matt Nagle

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Kathy Mattea

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Towny Anderson

There are just too many reasons to do that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Henry Ford

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!