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Quotes About Typical

Robert was a typical guy. He had trouble simply listening and mostly wanted to fix the problem.
~ Susan Mallery
The bowlers, men and women both, were of that pastime's typical bent—hefty, of a tribal disposition and with themselves well pleased.
~ Joy Williams
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
~ Haruki Murakami
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.
~ Jason Bateman
We're all strangely normal. Or normally strange.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There was something in Björk's behavior that was typical of the peasant's awe of those in power.
~ Henning Mankell
They stopped in front of a two-storey brick building quintessentially Swedish, Linda thought. Wherever you go in this country the houses all look the same. The central square in Vasteras could be replaced withthe one in Orebro, this Skurup apartment building could as easily be in Sollentuna.
~ Henning Mankell
typical frivolous always ended by sacrificing to vulgar pleasures. She
~ Henry James
Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.
~ Jo Cox
In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.
~ Geoff Dyer
We need a means for measuring the sizes of different infinite collections of universes. It is this information that we need in order to work out how likely it is that we reside in one type of universe rather than another. Until we find a fundamental dictum for how we should compare infinite collections of universes, we won't be able to foretell mathematically what typical multiverse dwellers-us-should see in experiments and observations. Solving the measure problem is imperative.
~ Brian Greene
The typical orange-grove owner is a gentleman farmer who has purchased a suburban estate as a means of acquiring status.
~ Carey McWilliams
Underwood." Normally
~ Carl Hiaasen
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day.
~ Terry Pratchett
He slices his head to the left in typical Barrons economy-of-motion fashion. He's the most self-contained man I've ever known. Not yet; we need to continue walking. But if she's in this mess, you've restored her.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes an extended metaphor of character defect. Every error he makes is so profoundly, so irritatingly typical of himself, instantly familiar, like a signature, like a tissue scar or some deformation in a private place.
~ Ian Mcewan
I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.
~ John Lewis
I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
~ Adam Carolla
It was a typical Soviet ploy. People were forever quoting Lenin, much of the time with a great deal of creativity, knowing that even scholars had a difficult time identifying quotations from the mass of Lenin's writing and speeches. Rostnikov
~ Stuart M. Kaminsky
By following what they believe are stick orders from the top, many typical managers tend to concentrate on working within budget and resource constraint --- thereby developing a boxed-in, "can't do" mindset.
~ Sumantra Ghoshal
Probably these children were not demonic. Possibly they were quite typical. But collectively, they were hell.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'm just a normal lad.
~ Jordan Pickford