Quotes About Average

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

I'm just a regular Joe.

I've always been a super regular guy.

I'm just kind of a regular guy.

I'm just a regular guy.

I'm just a regular person, nothing more.

I'm just a regular person, like any other ordinary person is.

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

I don't know that I read more than the average person. I don't think I do very much. I tend to read more when I'm on holiday. That's when I can go through books like you wouldn't believe. I read a bit of everything, but the novel has always been very important to me.

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

I'm not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go all day.

Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness.

How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.

Why is Amy amazing and Andy's just able? Well, don't you know a lot of powerful, fabulous women who settle for regular guys, Average Joes and Able Andys?

So here they are, trying to get us into the army again to get us to fight in Europe, but the country is isolationist. One of the reasons why the world has been demonized is because they had to do it. The average American is an isolationist.

Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.

I've always said I think I'm a totally normal guy.

IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a "genius" by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly "mentally disabled"). Similarly, a person with an IQ of 130 ("near genius") has a significant upper hand in life when compared to a person with an IQ of 100 ("average").