Quotes of: Average-person Keyword

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Robert Kiyosaki

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.

Helen Wills Moody

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

Kajol

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

James Wolcott

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

Ernst Mach

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Knute Rockne

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

Foster Friess

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

James C. Collins

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

Bruce Nash

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

Grover Norquist

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

James O'Shaughnessy

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

David Cross

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

Jeff Goodell

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Garrison Keillor

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

Anatole France

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

Adam Green

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

Warwick Davis