All Quotes

The average person has one Fallopian tube.
‐‐ Bo Burnham

The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
‐‐ Isaiah Washington

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
‐‐ Ivor Novello

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
‐‐ Don Rickles

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
‐‐ Andrew Carnegie

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

The average person tells a few white lies.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
‐‐ Jay-Z

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
‐‐ Leonard Orr

The average size of a woman is 14.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.
‐‐ Sean Covey

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
‐‐ Sam Ewing

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.
‐‐ Maria Bartiromo

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
‐‐ Daniel J. Bernstein

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.
‐‐ John Clifford

The avocado is native to the Mexican state of Puebla, which helps explain why it's so popular in Mexican cooking.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.
‐‐ Paul Feig

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.
‐‐ John Foster

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
‐‐ Neville Marriner

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
‐‐ Robert Creeley

The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
‐‐ Zac Efron

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
‐‐ Michael Ledeen

The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
‐‐ Jerry Pournelle

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
‐‐ Tris Speaker

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
‐‐ Dalton McGuinty

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
‐‐ Dave deBronkart

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The back, it's frustrating. It's hard to figure out. You go to bed feeling good, and you wake up tight. It seems like, when you have a bad back, your whole body feels like crap.
‐‐ Marco Scutaro

The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.
‐‐ Jakob Dylan

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.
‐‐ Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.
‐‐ Saxby Chambliss

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.
‐‐ Pete Hamill