Average Quotes

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.