Quotes of: Average-people Keyword

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Queen Elizabeth II

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.

David Blunkett

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Kit Bond

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

David Whyte

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

Grant Achatz

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Derek Walcott

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

Emily Giffin

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

Bjorn Lomborg

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Bill Mauldin

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

Bill Nighy

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

Ben Saunders

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

Chester Bennington

There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages.

Henry Beard

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Daniel Kahneman

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Jane Fonda

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

E. W. Howe

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

Stephen Gaghan

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

Johan Huizinga

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

Adam DeVine

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Aries Spears