Quotes of: Average Keyword

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

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Georg Simmel

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

I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

DMX

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

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

Warwick Davis

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

William Greider

It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as they stand courageously by the truth. There is ground for hope ...

Listen, Little Man!

Heights plummeted because of a little disaster called civilization. "Heights go way down when we go into state society," says Bogin. "When Egypt conquered the Nile area, the height of peasants fell dramatically. They moved from having access to a wid...

The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High

When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down to zero, the average went down to 1.1 per customer. The students limited themselves to a large degree when the candy was free. In...

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such differe...

Down and Out in Paris and London

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

The Funny Thing Is...

For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Burr