Quotes of: Average-man Keyword

There are a lot of valid reasons for wanting to feel safer. But hiding from pain or perceived threats behind a wall of weight is not the way to go about it. First of all, being a fat adult will never change the circumstances of anyone's childhood. Th...

Counting Calories: A True Story From An Average Jane Who Lost Over 120 Pounds In Less Than 6 Months

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those o...

The Crack-Up

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were l...

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Being in love is an emotional and obsessive experience. However, emotions change and obsessions fade. Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years. For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less. But ...

Gary Chapman

Marty DiBergi: Given the history of Spinal Tap drummers, uh, in the past, do you have any fears, uh, for your life? Mick Shrimpton: When I did join, you know, they did tell me - they kind of took me aside and said, "Well, Mick. It's, you know, it's l...

This Is Spinal Tap

I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from their very birth. Selfishness defines us. Greed and lust motivate us. And even the best man who ever lived would lie to preserve his own life or beliefs...

The Scion of Abacus, Part 4

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is...

Sceptical Essays

Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything p...

Minority Report

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Bobby Rahal

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

Ghosts are invisible. So are people who are perfectly average. Be great or be greatless. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

Paul Feig

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

Satya Nadella

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

Ken Thompson

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Lawrence Bender

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Lena Headey

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

Lee Scott

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Rosamund Pike

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Stephen Covey

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Matt Taibbi

The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.

David J. C. MacKay