They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.
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.
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.
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.
I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
I'm just an average woman with average concerns.
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd als...
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so th...
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! ...
Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of av...
What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.
The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.
