#average

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant. ↗

— Russell Banks

#accountant #almost #anyone #average #chooses

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent. ↗

— Willie Aames

#artists #average #average person #deeply #down

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#being #correct #cut #even #fortune

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. ↗

— Martha Beck

#added #average #brains #century #change

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#damn #fast #give #happens #long

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#average #garden #gardener #going #her

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#average #contribute #details #effect #enjoyable

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#average #costs #each #easier #ending

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#awe-inspiring #enough #gotten #i #person

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each