Average Quotes

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.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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!

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

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

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

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.

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.