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.

Donald Johanson

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

Scott Clark

Typically, industrial operations have an in-house energy management group that can go a long way toward determining their needs but can't really do a detailed feasibility study. So, they need to come to consultants like us.

Irwin Huberman

We feel that the information provided to us was not sufficiently detailed to help us enforce or supervise the cleanup of the site.

Jim Crace

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

Mirwaiz Umar

We had a very detailed discussion, a very heart-to-heart discussion.

Larry Peck

This was not a house burglary. The items were returned to their rightful owner and she gave police a detailed statement. She has a very sad reason for doing this.

Dore Gold

We now need a detailed security plan from the Palestinians,

Phil Mauney

That way we can compile a detailed list to go by.

David Christian

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

Evangeline Lilly

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

David Selby

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Nancy Gibbs

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Ninette de Valois

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Eric Shinseki

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

Caity Lotz

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

Don Cornelius

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Tom Chatfield

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

Tamara Taylor

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Jeff Jackson

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Catherine McAuley

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

Carmen Dolfo

We played a great first half. We played together and played great defense, but defensively we just couldn't get back into a flow in the second half.

Mike Mills

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Kris Janowski

We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia.

Michael O'Donoghue

I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Laini Taylor

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Louis Menand

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.