Average Quotes - page 8

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year. (Wallace Shawn)
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things. View quote
Aries Spears
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. View quote
Bjorn Lomborg
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. View quote
Bob Lilly
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. View quote
Bobby Rahal
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. View quote
Branford Marsalis
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. View quote
Buffalo Bill
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win. View quote
Bum Phillips
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be. View quote
Cee Lo Green
Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters. View quote
Charlie Norwood
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.' (Chris Farley)
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. View quote
Corin Nemec
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. View quote
Crystal Eastman
I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it. View quote
David Axelrod
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. View quote
David R. Brower
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. View quote
David Simon
Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans. View quote
Davy Jones
I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important. View quote
Don Rickles
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. View quote
Douglas Sirk
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. View quote
Elton Gallegly
I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me. (Earle Combs)
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. View quote
Franklin Raines
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. View quote
George Thorogood
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. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. View quote
Grace Napolitano