Quotes About Unremarkable

I'm just a regular dude.

I'm actually a rather dull man.

I'm an average, everyday girl.

I am not at all the sort of person who attracts attention, I am an anonymous presence against an even more anonymous background.

She was not ugly, she was not pretty. But just that old-fashioned word, plain.

I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.

but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar—you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar—you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Volvos are fundamentally invisible.

The Embassy Suites in Des Moines was of the architectural style known as 20th Century Hotel Unremarkable, a large beige building apparently designed not to piss anybody off, except maybe the local aesthetes.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

I'm not sure if there's truly a name for this kind of place aside from it being anything but remarkable.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

Nothing ever happens to me.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

an unremarkable wardrobe within which snow falls on a faun.

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness

Being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name.