Quotes About Average

I have a remarkably normal life.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

I lead a very boring, normal life.

And I doubt that the average border guard in Skandia will see the difference—particularly if you're dressed in that fine suit of Gallican armor you took from Deparnieux.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

If you see my ratings when I fight, you will see my ratings are well above average.

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

When I was younger, I wasn't thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know that's not what the average person does, but I've gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.

Did you know that half of all people are below average?

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

There are few statistical facts more interesting than regression to the mean for two reasons. First, people encounter it almost every day of their lives. Second, almost nobody understands it.

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern American consumes even less if the salt content of packaged food is not included.

Professor Brown said that Mann's reconstructed planetary "average" is "possibly representative of no climate state that actually ever existed".

Nation-states can think in terms of megadeaths, but it's all the average person can do to harbor fantasies of murdering his own boss.