Quotes About Unremarkable

People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.

For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.

Bird laughs. For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.

He has never been in a place like this, where no one gives him a second glance. If his father was here, he'd be the one standing out, not Bird, and Bird laughs. For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.

And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room.

I'm just a normal person.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous.

Me? I'm nothing. I'm a fart in the air conditioning. I'm always there, but most of the time nobody knows it.

Most people are boring and stupid.

In short, everything that might make a town interesting or pleasant had been made boring or unpleasant, and if Paltryville had been listed in a guidebook the only helpful hint about what to do when you got there would be: "Leave.

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!

I can be very ordinary looking.

I've had such an ordinary life.

I am an ordinary man.

I am just an ordinary man.

I'm really just an ordinary person.

I consider myself an ordinary person.

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.