Average Quotes · Page 34

I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.

— Tommy Lee

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

— Charles Bukowski

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect…

— Ted Nugent

The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York…

— George Wallace

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

— Daniel Kahneman

I've heard it said that the average person is lucky to have only a handful of true friends in their lifetime. Well,…

— Jim Nantz

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

— Susanna Reid

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

— Marilyn Monroe

One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If…

— Thomas Sowell

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for…

— T. Boone Pickens

The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality,…

— R. Gerald Turner

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more...…

— Matt Damon

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923,…

— Terence Winter

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his…

— Noam Chomsky

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a…

— Richard Koch

Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables…

— Steve Goodier

Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day,…

— Walter E. Williams

After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the…

— Stan Brakhage

I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance,…

— Denton Cooley

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,…

— Gloria Steinem

Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman,…

— Wyndham Lewis

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount…

— Anonymous

Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I always read interviews with people and they say I was a right joker at school, I was a right loner at…

— Ant McPartlin

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

— Francis Crick

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful…

— Marlene Dietrich

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into…

— Anonymous

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We…

— Heather King

The film [Aquarius" ] is very, very successful. We had the highest per-screen average of last week's releases.

— Sonia Braga

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100…

— Ryan Reynolds

The best time to hold on is when you reach the point where the average person would quit.

— Vikrant Parsai

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

— Ethan Zuckerman

More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

— Craig Brown

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

— Elbert Hubbard

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not…

— Montgomery Clift

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

— Garrison Wynn

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

— Bill Nighy

The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

— Mitchell Baker

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

— John Lewis