Average Quotes · Page 46

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a…

— John Mackey

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at…

— Ryan Babel

A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had…

— Viv Richards

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

— Ken Livingstone

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

— Michel Faber

My average day is with my wife and kids in Dublin, doing school runs, grocery store, feeding and walking the dogs.

— Ronan Keating

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a…

— Neal Shusterman

I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better…

— Gore Vidal

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution,…

— Gregory Benford

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was…

— Emil Zatopek

It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior…

— John Maynard Keynes

It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more…

— Charles R. Schwab

I'm very average American in my taste. Any poll they run, I'm right wherever the average American is. What's it called, the…

— Nate Bargatze

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was…

— Barbara Kingsolver

According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the…

— Alex Shoumatoff

There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming…

— Sebastian Junger

The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it…

— Matt Ridley

Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings…

— Scot Armstrong

People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which…

— Ann Winterton

Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a…

— Winston Churchill

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of…

— George Eliot

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain… Unlike the slight…

— Lionel Shriver

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

— Peter Straub

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

— Warren Moon

I'm never going to have a Test average of 50 like Tendulkar. All I want to be is the best that I…

— Nasser Hussain

I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter…

— W. Bruce Cameron

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

— DeForest Kelley

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

— Stan Musial

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

— Jim Goad

I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are…

— Verne Troyer

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

— Mohammad bin Salman

I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while…

— Chris Grayling

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

— Adam Carolla

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

— Johan Huizinga

Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

— Seth Meyers

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

— Alex Rodriguez

I think that's the nature of this league. You look at the average career length and it's about three and a half…

— Matthew Slater