Quotes About Unexceptional

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was

An interesting fact about Starkley is that there are no interesting facts about Starkley.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Although, through the vagaries of international politics, Athens became independent and democratic again soon afterwards, and continued for several generations to produce art, literature and philosophy, it was never again host to rapid, open-ended progress. It became unexceptional. Why? I guess that its optimism was gone.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

I'm not impressed

none of which pleased my pedestrian palate.

Secondrateness comes out of his pores like a fog.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

This conversation was remarkable only in its unremarkableness.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott.

I don't see myself as having had an exceptional life. Yeah sure, I've had an interesting life, but I'm more interested in what's not exceptional about it.

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Nobody had told me I was common.

He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect.

Most people are boring and stupid.

little too undistinguished, a little

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Seeing the pros in person was no more interesting than eating an ice-cold hamburger

I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.