Average Number

Famous quotes containing the words average and/or number:

    Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    The best number for a dinner party is two—myself and a dam’ good head waiter.
    Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972)