Average Quotes

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

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

You can't win by being more average than average.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.

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

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

I didn't come here to be average.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.