Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
The film [Aquarius" ] is very, very successful. We had the highest per-screen average of last week's releases.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.
I call myself 'The Bruiserweight'. I fit the weight category of a cruiserweight, but I don't wrestle like your average cruiserweight.
I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.
In Bollywood, on an average, movies are made in six months or a year, but Puri completed 'Loafer' in two months.
I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.
I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.
An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.
I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
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.
Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.
I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.
It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.
I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.
I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.
On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.
It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.
I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.
I was a DC fan; The Flash was always my favorite character. He was sort of the most average guy amongst all of these icons, even though he had super speed, you know?
If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because I refuse to give up the weekend.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
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