All Quotes

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
‐‐ Bob Barr

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

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.
‐‐ Aries Spears

The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult to get a FHA loan, loans from private mortgage lenders will become more attractive and their market share will grow.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
‐‐ Stephen Gaghan

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
‐‐ Bernard Berenson

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
‐‐ Bill Kristol

The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.
‐‐ Richard Ben Cramer

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
‐‐ Jean Kerr

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.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
‐‐ Eva Gabor

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.
‐‐ John Trudell

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.
‐‐ Rose George

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
‐‐ James O'Shaughnessy

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The average is that which no person quite ever is.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
‐‐ Moby

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
‐‐ Mike McCready

The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.
‐‐ Lily Cole

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
‐‐ Anatole France

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.
‐‐ Crystal Eastman

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
‐‐ A. E. Housman

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
‐‐ Colin Wilson

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
‐‐ Michael Feldman

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa

The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.
‐‐ Lawrence Bender

The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she's deeply grateful for her life. I don't think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane