Typical Quotes

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

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.

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

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

I live in a house that's incredibly old, and it's typical that part of it is slightly in the ground. It's very earthed. It's almost like living in a hobbit house.

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.

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.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.

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.

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

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

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

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

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.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

In some ways, there's no typical day with all the shoots and travel and projects, but I do try and stop by my studio every day.

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

I'm a typical California boy.

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.

I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is blaming man for global warming. And today, Al Gore agreed with him. That's so typical. Two cyborgs, 'Oh, let's blame the humans.'