Top 1200 Above Average Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.

I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.

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

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at an average team.

People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

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

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

My average day is with my wife and kids in Dublin, doing school runs, grocery store, feeding and walking the dogs.

Let's just say I've learned a lot and seen things differently than any other average high school kid.

I think the average voter wants somebody who has the right philosophy and can combine that with the ability to get something done in Washington.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.

When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.

The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

No one is above the law.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

The Queen is above it all

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.

Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.

I'm not above criticism.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

God above all.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.