Top 1200 Average Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

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.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

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

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

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

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.

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

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

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

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

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

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.

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

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

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.

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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

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

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.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

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

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

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The truth is, I admire his mischief, because if Suarez were to lose that, he would become an average player.

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

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.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

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.

I played every sport in high school for one year. If I couldn't be great at it, I quit. I would rather not do it than be average.

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

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

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

On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.

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

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.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

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

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

MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

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

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

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