#average

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. ↗

— Larry Elder

#ever #father #four #hard #hours

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#average #average american #day #every #girl

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#average #ball #batting #catch #cumulative

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games. ↗

— Solange Knowles

#average #back #ball games #definitely #football

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#copy #day #days #get #good

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#going #know #poem #write #writing

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#average #close #day #every #every day

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. ↗

— Terri Windling

#average #gems #i #looking #might

The average is that which no person quite ever is. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#ever #person #quite #which