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.
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.
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.
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
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.
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.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.
My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.
Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience.
