Average Quotes

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.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

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.