Typical Quotes

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

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

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.

I'm just really excited to promote the movie [I know The Chair ] and the show in a different way, and not just the typical Hollywood way, which I don't think I'll ever fit into.

In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

Michael Powell always used to say 'I'm a typical Englishman'. He was and he wasn't. He was very cosmopolitan and spent a lot of time in Europe.

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.

Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

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.

Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

[My grandmother] is a typical white person.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.