#average

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#body #cents #copy #dollar #eighty

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#average #day #deeper #done #down

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#average #black #creative #faces #i

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#balls #court #fuzz #good #hard

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#average #average person #dog #nicer #person

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#portia-de-rossi #unbearable-lightness #english

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#average #average people #hires #out #people

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. ↗

— David R. Brower

#average #average guy #believe #consumption #cost

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher. ↗

— Eric Brown

#everybody #going #joe #joined #professionals

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city