Typical Quotes

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. (Djuna Barnes)
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. View quote
Frederick Reines
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. View quote
Mike Gordon
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life. View quote
Tina Yothers
It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it." View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists. View quote
Jean Piaget
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps - violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. View quote
Graham Greene
When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think "this must be heaven". Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. (Vladimir Lenin)
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates. View quote
Eric Idle
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love. View quote
Louis Sullivan
This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth. View quote
Helmut Kohl
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller. View quote
Norman Rockwell
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability. View quote
William Rehnquist
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. View quote
William Cowper
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A typical vice of American politics - the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man. (Colin Wilson)
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world. View quote
Carl Jung
A family without a black sheep is not a typical family. View quote
Heinrich Böll
The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel. View quote
Michael Spence