Average Quotes
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.
Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.
The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.
I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.
The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.
I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.
My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.
My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old
My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.
In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.
I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.
The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.
The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.
Today, the average family has enough financial reserves to keep going for about three weeks. That's it.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.
As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.
The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.