I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in,… — Don Ho Copy Share Image
People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I-70 is a crucial economic artery for Colorado and the West, and on an average day, almost 5,000 semi-trucks carrying medicine, food,… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q.,… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends.… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five:… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth.… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person,… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a… — Arthur Chu Copy Share Image
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was… — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
On average, most people consume between 100 - 120 grams of protein per day. Not only is that unhealthy, it's extremely dangerous,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content… — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Spin rate itself doesn't make a pitch harder to hit. It just makes it further from what the hitters are used to… — Trevor Bauer Copy Share Image
I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government,… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image