Average Quotes

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.

I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?'

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

I pride myself on average, not home runs.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

Up off your knees now and shatter the average.

There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

I love a glass of champagne. It can make even the most average Monday seem like a Saturday night. I always say there's happiness in every bubble!

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

I wasn't going to be average.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.