Quotes About Average

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I can be very ordinary looking.

I am an ordinary man.

I am just an ordinary man.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I'm really just an ordinary person.

Guess what? I am an ordinary person.

I'm just an ordinary person.

I consider myself an ordinary person.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

I am an ordinary person.

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Make sure that people know what type of average you're using. What if someone else uses the term average without specifying the type? That person is probably referring to the mean, but you can't be certain, and a lack of certainty is dangerous when you're talking statistics.

An average man should start with a 35-pounder. What is "average"? —Given the bench press as a typical, albeit misguided, standard of strength, men with a bench press under 200 pounds should start with a 35-pounder. If you bench more than 200, a 44 that weighs as much as a big barbell plate will do the trick. Unless you are a powerlifter or a strongman, you have no business starting with a 53.

Mediocrity is contextual.

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.

Our expenses, including rent, have averaged sixty dollars a month.

Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.

He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.

La fraternité, Messieurs, réclame pour son exercice une certaine médiocrité démographique.

La vida es una sucesión de actos miserables interrumpidos por unos pocos y pequeños actos heroicos, y es en el promedio de todos ellos donde logramos sentirnos dignos. Donde queremos que al menos un testigo nos sepa dignos. Aunque no lo seamos.

I forgave them, having surmised – correctly, as it turned out – that America was merely first in achieving a level of average income so high that even the mentally underprivileged were able to travel, and that shortly all the other industrialised countries would start exporting idiots too.