Average Quotes - page 2

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. (H. L. Mencken)
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. View quote
Richard Koch
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. View quote
Mike Tyson
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. View quote
Martha Beck
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. View quote
Martha Beck
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. View quote
Placido Domingo
You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood. View quote
Tilman J. Fertitta
I'm just an average woman with average concerns. (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan)
It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits. View quote
Alfred Binet
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. View quote
Sam Ewing
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. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
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. View quote
Buffalo Bill
The average American is nothing if not patriotic. View quote
Herbert Croly
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. View quote
Howard Staunton
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. View quote
Knute Rockne
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. View quote
Marilu Henner
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. View quote
Robert McChesney
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. (Terri Windling)
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. View quote
Robert Mugabe
I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them! View quote
John Diefenbaker
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more. The Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew