Average Quotes

President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

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 problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

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

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

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

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

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