Typical Quotes
423 quotes by 390 authors
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I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm…
— Christian Bale
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I didn't want to do something typical.
— Beck
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
— Bill Bryson
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
— Smedley Butler
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My life is anything but typical.
— Margaret Cho
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming…
— Marina Abramovic
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With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution…
— James Crawford
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The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it…
— Joel Sartore
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
— Billy Joel
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces…
— Diana Lopez
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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in…
— H. L. Mencken
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Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has…
— Arthur Compton
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I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
— R. J. Reynolds
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Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to…
— James Bovard
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First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.
— Tony Dungy
Who Wrote These Typical Quotes
390 authors contributed a total of 423 Typical Quotes, led by these top contributors: