Top 20 Averageness Quotes
#1. Amy made me believe I was exceptional, that I was up to her level of play. That was both our making and undoing Because I couldn't handle the demands of greatness. I began craving ease and averageness.
Gillian Flynn
#2. Because of our freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. People assume the most important word in that sentence is 'freedom,' when, in fact, it is 'pursue.' If we don't pursue life, we are just as free to waste it. Our averageness is the degree to which we fail to attempt that pursuit.
Ryan Quinn
#3. Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
Frank Moore Colby
#4. Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
Douglas Coupland
#5. It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
Sara Baume
#6. Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
Nicholson Baker
#7. Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map ... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
Stephen King
#8. What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it.
Rose George
#9. If I didn't believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it.
Leonard Marx
#10. You're annoying. Bossy. And annoying." "You already said I'm annoying." I grin. "It needs repeating," she mumbles under her breath.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#12. In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam Chomsky
#13. When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average. And is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
George Saunders
#14. Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public
Kenneth Eade
#16. I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character.
Andy Serkis
#17. The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.
Virat Kohli
#18. The sun reflects off the side mirror, momentarily blinding me. And all I can think is: how is the sun shining when my heart is breaking?
Cheryl McIntyre
#19. I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.
Christine O'Keeffe Lafser
#20. Sometimes it's hard to face your own ... life.
Jon Stewart
