Quotes About Typical

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

It was typical of many hunts in that it was based on a bitter quarrel over property in which men used women as a target.

Blücher, pushing himself forward with typical Prussian effrontery to share the glory which the other had won)

The writer has no rights at all except those he forges for himself inside his own work. We have become so flooded with sorry fiction based on unearned liberties, or on the notion that fiction must represent the typical, that in the public mind the deeper kinds of realism are less and less understandable.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

I have had . . . easier days. Although in retrospect, this one is not atypical.

I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast—I was becoming typical.

There was no such thing as human nature, if by that one believed that certain reactions and responses were typical of all men.

She hoped he wouldn't ask what she was doing at the party. If she had to say she was a poet, her present situation, her overindulgence, would be taken as drearily typical.

I live a normal life.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

A game like that is typical for Tipper. She looks for ways to squeeze any last drop of pleasure from a situation, to create joy and surprise whenever she can.

It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness.

Round up the usual suspects.

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.

It was obviously a typical human enterprise, very much of this earth, with nothing true or sincere about it, and doomed irremediably to the usual exploitations and treachery...

a typical male who would find a way to blame his lust on the object of it.

joined Kibbutz Sdot Yam, married, and had two children. His first wife died of cancer about ten years ago and he has married again. He says, "I ask myself in what ways my life has not been typical. For a Jew from Eastern Europe it has been completely typical—war, death of mother, death of father, death of sister, four years in disguise among the Germans, death of wife, death of son. Thirty years of hard work, planting and harvesting in the kibbutz. Nothing exceptional.

A recent study shows that the average length of tenancy for a typical customer is 11 months, and 24 months for the average commercial tenant.

Partiendo del hecho geométrico y existencial de que nuestro ser está en el centro de nuestra historia y en la periferia de las historias de los demás, muchos llegamos al mismo tiempo a la algo extravagante conclusión de que nuestra vida abunda en coincidencias y sucesos notables, mientras que las de los demás es más bien típica.