Average Quotes
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.
Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.
I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.