Average Quotes

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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our… — Caitlin Moran
You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had… — George Carlin
When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke. — George Carlin
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's… — Rachel McAdams
I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the… — Roger Ebert
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. — Robert Breault
Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once. — Jerome K. Jerome
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things.… — Richard Koch
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
I will not be labelled as average. — Rachel Scott
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little… — Oliver Goldsmith
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,… — Arnold Bennett
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the… — Robert Anton Wilson
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates
I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average… — Neal Boortz
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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