Quotes by category:Typical

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

Steve Jobs

typical light tea

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Stockwell Day

typical stories trying

The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Stuart L. Hart

typical land energy

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

Susan Fiske

hierarchy typical goal

Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music journalist disdain, I just figured it was a testament to how poor French pop was if there was this much fuss about a guy who had one hit record, 'Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)'.

Sylvie Simmons

typical guy tears

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.

Thelma Schoonmaker

typical used europe

Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

Thomas Frank

typical campaigns leader

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Thomas Perez

typical running children

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Thorstein Veblen

typical tariffs libertarian

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

Tim LaHaye

typical scary wings

History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

Tim Wu

hobbies typical technology

... 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.

Timothy Gowers

typical confused science

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Timothy Geithner

typical usual business

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Toni Servillo

typical feelings attitude

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Toni Morrison

typical racism ideas

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Uwe Boll

typical dark house

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

Van Day Truex

typical design color

When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

Vincent Van Gogh

typical drawing feelings

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Vladimir Sorokin

typical oppression cases

The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

Warren Buffett

dobermans typical looks