Most Typical Quotes

#1. Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life ... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

Willy Ronis

#3. It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

Laura Schlessinger

#4. There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.

Paul Auster

#5. The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.

Rashers Tierney

#6. Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

Diana Lopez

#7. You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#8. I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.

Martin Henderson

#9. You have to let her know you're in charge!"
"I thought I was!" Typical female. The mare had only let him THINK he was in charge.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#10. It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

Al Jourgensen

#11. He was a typical workaholic, driven to succeed and willing to put in the hours to do so. It didn't leave much time for a social life. (Greg)

Lynsay Sands

#12. Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes - not unlike you - not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don't tend to know it.

Shannon Celebi

#13. John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

Gareth Barry

#14. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.

Lou Doillon

#15. I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.

Matisyahu

#16. The fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#17. I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

Scott M. Gimple

#18. It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.

Rachel Kushner

#19. I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

Peter DeLuise

#20. There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

Zainab Salbi

#21. I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

Liz Phair

#22. I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

Bernie Leadon

#23. It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.

Evelyn Waugh

#24. The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds.

Seth Shostak

#25. The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.

Desi Arnaz

#26. I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.

Matt Smith

#27. I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

Billy Collins

#28. One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

Arnold Bennett

#29. On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now," and "Half the people you know are below average." Typical for the Eastern student body.

Neil S. Plakcy

#30. By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

Louise Erdrich

#31. My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I've always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out of me.

Chelsea Handler

#32. He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.

Garry Monk

#33. Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

Jonathan Zittrain

#34. Figure 9.2 Common Hop Varieties and Their Typical Alpha Acid Levels

Ray Daniels

#35. Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

Steven Sinofsky

#36. Autistic people are individuals. We are not all maths geniuses, we don't all like trains. I am hopeless with technology and much prefer painting. There is no 'typical Autistic.' But I think we probably all like being respected and validated

Jeanette Purkis

#37. I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Pedro Pascal

#38. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Voltaire

#39. Tawny shrugged. "I was overreacting. Typical big sister move. He explained why he did it, and it makes sense, in a slightly twisted way. He's not a bad guy. He's just a jerk. But a nice one."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Men rarely do.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#40. The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

Jonathan Gruber

#41. 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

Adam Kluger

#42. A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

James Wolcott

#43. New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Djuna Barnes

#44. You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.

Anastacia

#45. Consider carbon, for example. The lifetime of carbon in the combined atmosphere-ocean-biosphere, the time it takes on average before the typical carbon atom is transferred to the sediment, is less than 200,000 years.

Michael B McElroy

#46. The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#47. Miracles appear to be required only when you try to take too large a step all at once. This is not to say that life is not an impressive phenomenon. But as is typical with impressive phenomena, it is impressive because it emerges gradually somewhere on a long continuum.

M..

#48. It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

Russell Kirk

#49. There is nothing typical about my profession.' Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. 'I don't want to talk about it any longer.

Patrick DeWitt

#50. If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.

Jennifer Silverwood

#51. If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

Jens Lekman

#53. I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Penelope Keith

#54. In North Korea, even arithmetic is a propaganda tool. A typical problem would go like this: "If you kill one American bastard and your comrade kills two, how many dead American bastards do you have?

Yeonmi Park

#55. Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

Shelby Harris

#56. I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

Ryan Gosling

#57. As usual, he had escaped into his work when his private life became too much of a burden. It was typical of a certain type of man, he had read.

Jo Nesbo

#58. Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body every year. The effects of every individual interaction are pretty negligible, so don't worry about getting a dark matter stomachache.

Sean Carroll

#59. For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those calories with carbohydrates. Avoid saturated fats, such as those found in fried foods, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Don Kardong

#60. I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.

Jenny Hval

#61. I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror elements in it, but it's got a lot more to it, and it's not a typical horror movie.

Shanley Caswell

#62. In my own eyes, I could only see how ridiculous I looked. How typical white-girl-goes-to-Africa. But in their eyes, the hair was a way to make me part of them, at least for a moment.

Jessica Posner

#63. A typical CR2032 will have a quoted energy capacity of 230mAh at 3 volts. Just to put this into context, this is about the amount of energy required to power a human being for just over 20 seconds.

Robin Heydon

#64. Isn't that just typical. You're either asking for it, or having it forced upon you without your consent. Who decided women always have to be passive in sex?

Nenia Campbell

#65. Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed.

Kim Harrison

#66. In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation ... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.

Temple Grandin

#67. Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.

W. H. Auden

#68. Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument,

Isabel Allende

#69. In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.

Ben Bernanke

#70. In typical Billary fashion, they claimed they hadn't created the problem. The media had, the Republicans, the lawyers - anyone but them. He was sorry, he said. I couldn't stand it anymore.

Gary J. Byrne

#71. So ... what's the typical schedule with the whole dating thing? How long before one gets to the actual fucking?"
"Three dates," they all answer simultaneously.
My eyebrows raise. "Three dates? Seriously? Are you guys, like ... more religious than I ever knew?

Emma Chase

#72. Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.

Bill Dedman

#73. On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out of their cars, and bash their faces into pavement; Suck up that dirt like a good little Electrolux, Jersey Boy Bitch.

Augusten Burroughs

#74. In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.

James Spithill

#75. The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

H.L. Mencken

#76. As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

Mark Galli

#77. I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

Hugh Hefner

#78. The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

James Alan Fox

#79. I don't watch a lot of porn, but a typical search term for me is "fat lesbians." What a beautiful fantasy: to be accepted and embraced and adored as your biggest self, the most you, by a woman who is her fullest her.

Melissa Broder

#80. I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

David Suchet

#81. Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what he picked up on his own. This is sort of typical of Steve. When he knows something is going to be important, he tries to absorb as much as he possibly can.

John Sculley

#82. I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

Cale Yarborough

#83. A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

Heinrich Boll

#84. A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.

Molly Crabapple

#85. But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

Dennis Muren

#86. In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

Fred Melamed

#87. There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#88. First dates are so awkward and annoying. I think a casual and fun first date with friends is much more fun than a one-on-one typical first date.

Kourtney Kardashian

#89. The God of the universe
the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor
loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

Francis Chan

#90. A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

Adam Rapp

#91. Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

David Alan Harvey

#92. For the first time in history, the typical American now spends more years single than married. What

Aziz Ansari

#93. The typical Walmart today offers you 100,000 products.

Sheena Iyengar

#94. For Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.

Joshua Harris

#95. [My grandmother] is a typical white person.

Barack Obama

#96. My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.

Laurence Yep

#97. A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.

Jim Webb

#98. I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?

Tyra Banks

#99. A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

Bob Black

#100. Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

Margaret Bourke-White