Top 1200 Above Average Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

My dad was not a footballer. He wasn't anything remotely what the average person would say was a role model - but in my eyes he was Superman.

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering my arms, I continue to soar. In the air moving around my head and shoulders, I experience the power of thoughts. In the air moving around my chest, I experience the power of feelings. In the air moving around my legs and feet, I experience the power of will. I am that

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

For the average person at home, they should know they don't need a celebrity trainer. It's all about your habits outside of the gym.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

As cricketers we're judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who's just come into international cricket to the day you retire.

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

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

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

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

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

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

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

What I think the average person wants is not a fight; they want to see something move forward in their own neighborhood.

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.