Quotes of: Average-people Keyword

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

Taipei

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

The Three-Cornered World

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

Don Shula

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

Onyi Anyado

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

Osman Rashid

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

Peter Diamandis

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Paul J. Meyer

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Richard Dawkins

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

Roger Ebert

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Sarah Beth Durst

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

Sydney J. Harris

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

Stephen F. Lynch

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

Seth MacFarlane

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

T. Boone Pickens

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

Kelly Corrigan

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

Ken Livingstone

Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.

Ken Poirot

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Larry Brilliant