The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman
I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
A. J. Cook
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
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
I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.
AB de Villiers
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
Abhijit Banerjee
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
Adam Carolla
When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
Adam DeVine
I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
Adam Green
Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
There is always room for improvement even if you're getting 110 averages.
Adrian Lewis
I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It's tried to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think the average viewer is much more intelligent than that and crave a little more complexity and are willing to pay more attention.
Adrian Pasdar
As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and it's difficult when you're already starting off making less than the average.
Adrienne C. Moore
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'm just an average woman with average concerns.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.
Akshaye Khanna
The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.
Alain Dehaze
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
Alan Alda
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
As cricketers we're judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who's just come into international cricket to the day you retire.
You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.
I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.
Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
If it's not messy and it doesn't drip over the sides, it's not a holiday hot chocolate -it's just an average hot chocolate.
When I was 15, I was about seven stone - the average weight for a kid of 11 in them days was about nine stone. I managed to keep my head down because there was about half a dozen heavies in the class and there was bullying in them days. But I stayed one step ahead of them all the time.
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels and virgin materials we do now. But if we're living anything like the average McMansion-ite, SUV-driving suburbanites, there's simply no way that can be powered in a climate-friendly way.
When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.
I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.
So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
For one thing, vegetarians are, on average, fitter and trimmer than meat-eaters are, so the best thing that young people who want to look their best can do is to keep meat off their plates.
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.
You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.
Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
