#average

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

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12. ↗

— Shaun White

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Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. ↗

— George Thorogood

#average #band #blues #did #every

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

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#citizen #effectively #fight #house #media

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#certain #day #half #half hours #hours

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

— Terri Windling

#average #gems #i #looking #might