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

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Rowan D. Williams

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

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
Placido Domingo

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

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

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
John Sayles

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!
Jay Leno

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
Barry Gibb

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
Bum Phillips

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis

I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.
Larry Holmes