Average Quotes · Page 24

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

— Jimmy Doolittle

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“the best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Art Alexakis

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

— Jack Levin

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal… The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.

— Gilbert Arenas

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

— Grover Norquist

Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average.…

— Charles Dance

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough…

— James Frey

If you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the…

— Donald Trump

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain…

— Bobby Lee

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your…

— Jay Leno

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How…

— Margaret Culkin Banning

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected…

— Eric S. Raymond

As a drummer, I always approach things as, 'I want to play just enough to keep other drummers interested, but not enough…

— Vinnie Paul

A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think…

— Don Winslow

What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other,…

— Joseph Cook

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you…

— Brian Tracy

Obama's devastating America. The policies put in place and those that are gonna be put in place are gonna do even more…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…

— Umberto Eco

At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable…

— Bernie Sanders

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against…

— Gilbert Murray

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing…

— Amy Carmichael

The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

— Sam Levenson

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

— Michelle Obama

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average…

— Gustave Flaubert

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

— Meg Rosoff

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

— Norman Vincent Peale

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

— Ronald J. Sider

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that…

— E. W. Howe

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

— Robin Sharma

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

— Anonymous

Government employees deserve to be treated fairly, but they do not deserve a significantly better deal than average Illinoisans get in their…

— Bruce Rauner

If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.

— Demetri Martin

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

— Ethel Merman

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

— Clint Eastwood

When you establish that you're a galactically successful offensive team, but below average defensively, that's not gonna win you a championship.

— Rick Carlisle

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

— Anonymous

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

— Eugene V. Debs