Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

George Orwell

As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Franz Grillparzer

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

Jeff Beck

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.

Jeaniene Frost

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

Jennifer Hudson

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

Jeff Cooper

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

George Will

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

George Saunders

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

Jeff Olson

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends,

Jeff Hawkins

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

Jeff Goodell

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.

Gifford Pinchot

The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

Gregory Benford

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

Francis Quarles

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Francis Collins

[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.

Francis Atterbury

It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning,

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

Mary Roach

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

Bob Stoops

I felt the law of averages would eventually swing back your way. We were due for something good to happen, and sure enough, it happened.

Jim Boeheim

If Gerry played at Notre Dame he'd probably average 25 a game for four years because that's what he gets when he comes here.

I'd hate to see our batting average with the bases loaded.

I can probably count the number (of peanut-free flights) on two hands. And on an average day, we fly 2,300 flights.

Whitney Tilson

I can virtually guarantee at today's value levels, no matter what, over multiple years they will rise. The world's greatest companies are trading at below- average multiples when they're wildly above-average companies.

I don't think the average person is seeing the economy in such great shape. They are seeing it in terms of what they pay for gas, they're seeing it in terms of what they pay for health care. Bush can talk about an upturn. There are indicators that show there is an upturn. But these aren't things that people deal with every day.

I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.

I don't see any reason to (change) when you average as many wins as we have. It seems silly to change a philosophy that was successful.

I averaged about 10-15 hours of work a week, ... But it was more motivation for me to get in there and improve my work.

I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I can find going home, and it costs $35 to $50. That cuts into my profit quite a bit.

Jim Goad

The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

Jerry Seinfeld

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.

Austan Goolsbee

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.